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UNC joins $10M advising program
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The Herald-Sun
March 21, 2007 9:02 pm
The program, called the National College Advising Corps, will be based at UNC.
The university will place recent graduates as college and financial-aid advisers for one or two years in 18 high schools statewide, including 14 that were threatened to be shut down under the Leandro ruling. Under that ruling, North Carolina courts found that the state must ensure that all children have access to a sound basic education and that the state must provide funds for that.
This August, four recent graduates will start work as advisers at eight schools in Alamance, Chatham, Durham and Guilford counties. UNC's branch of the program will expand to nine advisers in 18 high schools next year.
The advising corps is modeled after the University of Virginia's College Guide Program. That program's founding director, Nicole Hurd, will direct the national corps from the UNC Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
"We're grateful for the continued support of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation," UNC Chancellor James Moe-ser said in a statement. "This program will help smart, deserving students find their way to college. We're honored to host the headquarters for this national effort, and we will do everything we can to make this program work for students and schools in North Carolina."