American University have designed this Pre-Arrival Guide to help you obtain your student visa and prepare you for your arrival in the United States, in Washington, DC, and at American University. Enclosed is your official US immigration document (I-20 or DS-2019) which you may use to obtain your F-1 or J-1 visa at the US embassy or consulate.

The information in this workbook will help you plan, prepare and pay for college.

This guide is filled with valuable information and activities to help you through the career planning process. Your career is like a garden: it needs attention and care so that it can grow and reach its potential.

The purpose of this guide is to answer some of the questions you have about your student’s future education.

Peterson’s ACT Prep Guide’s skill-specific drills and practice help familiarize you with the ACT’s unique content , structure and format. Test taking tips and advice guide you smoothly from registration to test day.

In this brief, the author discuss how to leverage afterschool time for preparing students for a career by employing a workbased learning developmental continuum for K–12 education and providing examples of afterschool programs at each developmental stage.

This is the first of two publications that focus on improving students’ college, career and life readiness, particularly for students who have been underrepresented in higher education. Both publications frame the larger context of readiness through case studies that analyze the effectiveness of College Spark Washington’s (CSW) College Readiness Initiative (CRI).

Despite the importance of decision-making skills, there are still limited studies exploring this phenomenon in practice. Therefore, this study aims to explore the potential role of three different platforms including family, learning, and technological environments on the career decisions of university students.

Slide Deck – Career & Education Planning: More than Majors & Minors

The Commonwealth’s Adult and Community Learning Services division of the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education highlighted in its third goal the charge to “prepare students for success in their next steps: in college and further training, at work, and in the community.”

Why go to college? A higher education introduces students to new people and new experiences, and usually leads to a higher salary and lower chance of unemployment. This checklist will tell you how to get ready for college—and how the government will help you pay for it.

Whether you are considering a private career college, a community college, or a four-year college, ECMC prepared this workbook to guide you through the college selection, application, and financial aid process.

This report was undertaken to better understand the challenges to emotional wellbeing faced by young adults during the college-to-career transition.

The most educationally disadvantaged population in the United States resides in our nation’s prisons. Incarcerated adults have among the lowest academic skill levels and highest disability and illiteracy rates of any segment of our society—factors that likely contributed to their imprisonment.

One in every thirty-two Americans passes through a correctional institution at some point in life. At any given time, more than 2.1 million persons are incarcerated in the correctional institutions in America. Some 175,000 are in federal prisons; the balance are in local jails and state prisons.

This study tests the hypothesis that many Americans do not have the knowledge, skills or habits essential for effective management of personal finances. This investigation seeks to determine the reasons for financial misconduct and to discover measures that will assist college students in improving financial management practices.

In life we’re taught to plan for the worst, to be prudent, to hedge our bets. We’re told, “Be realistic! Keep your dreams in check.” For the most part, that advice is sound.

In terms of the effectiveness of correctional education programs for incarcerated adults, early reviews in this area found inconclusive evidence to support their efficacy—a finding that contributed to the popular belief that “nothing works” in prisoner rehabilitation; however, this conclusion may have been premature, given that appropriate analytic techniques had not been developed.

This booklet and its exercises/information might be all you need in order to get a clear idea of your direction, but it’s ideal to work through this process with one of us in Career Development.

High school juniors John, Sarah, Maria, Jermaine, Greg, Brad, and Kathy met as a student panel to give us ideas and advise on how to get good grades. They had great ideas and quotes from them were placed throughout this booklet.

The Guide was designed to help you research and apply to U.S. community colleges and to become more familiar with living and studying in the United States.

This pre-arrival and orientation guide has been produced for students who are coming to study at Cambridge from outside the UK. It provides practical guidance on coming to live and study in Cambridge from an international student perspective and information on some of the University’s central support services.

Remember that it takes a college graduate an average of 6 months to find that first job (The Balance, 2017). The key is to start your job search early, as fall is peak hiring season for many companies. Use the guide to get an idea of when to start your job search.

The guide has been written to be as inclusive and comprehensive as possible by including personal narratives, student testimonials and advice from experts. It is my desire that undocumented students and allies read through this guide and walk away feeling encouraged and unafraid of the next step.

The purpose of this overview is to highlight select common elements of state definitions of “college and career readiness.”

Part of your dream as a parent, guardian, or grandparent is to give your young person every opportunity for a bright future – even opportunities you might not have had. Getting into college and continuing their education is one way to help ensure your children will get what they need to be successful in life.

A helpful checklist from STEP BY STEP: COLLEGE AWARENESS AND PLANNING: LATE HIGH SCHOOL National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) which includes timeline for Junior and Senior level.

The transition from high school to college is a big step for everyone. Students with disabilities have even more things to consider than their nondisabled peers. This publication shares a few Internet resources for college-bound teens with disabilities to help them select appropriate classes and earn good grades.

About 40 percent of traditional college students take at least one remedial course to prepare for college-level coursework. One cause of this problem is the misalignment of high school graduation standards and college academic expectations.

The college admissions process is arduous at best, and at worst downright panic inducing. Heading up your academic profile—your grades, extracurriculars, personal statements—is one quantitative representation of your singular effort to compete against
the national pool of students for a spot in a top university: your SAT score.

Knowing how to secure your financial well-being is one of the most important things you’ll ever need in life. You just need to know a few basics, form a plan, and be ready to stick to it. In this brochure, it covers the basics on saving and investing.

One starting point for exploring your career options is personal self-assessment. Your career decisions affect your lifestyle, health, and overall sense of satisfaction and happiness, and it is important to make informed choices based on who you are, what you value, and what you have to offer the world.

The book tells about topic on intervention in the earlier years of high school to put students on a successful path to college attainment and graduation. It help students assess their career interests and aspirations and begin researching colleges to pursue those goals.

College and career readiness and success have become key priorities for the PK–20 education and workforce communities and the nation at large.

This paper find few differences between students’ academic progress at each type of institution during the first 2 years of college and (contrary to some earlier scholarship) students who do transfer have BA graduation rates equal to similar students who begin at 4-year colleges.

This practice report covers the role of parents and carers in providing careers guidance and how they can be better supported.

Starting with chapters of Finding a Career Path You Love, and ending with How to Start a New Job – this guide is full of top tips, advice & information, which will help you through every element within your job search.

Creating a resume that will get you noticed.

This paper reports on research which was conducted to explore how university students and those who had graduated and been subsequently employed, made career decisions.

The When I Grow Up career exploration curricula serve students, teachers, parents and the community of those in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 12th grades. Each grade level curriculum is designed to cater to the needs of the students and those presenting the information at that level.