Networking Center

Stop by to network with colleagues and learn about College Board programs and initiatives.

Closing the Enrollment Gap: Promoting Equity with the SAT Suite of Assessments

Join experts from College Board, K–12, and Higher Ed as we discuss the most effective ways to leverage the SAT Suite of Assessments to close the enrollment gap.

Major Federal Developments Affecting Higher Education Diversity and Admission

Federal policy and legal developments associated with diversity issues that affect the consideration of race, ethnicity, and sex in admissions.

Trends in Higher Education 2019

This session will highlight the latest findings from Trends in College Pricing 2019 and Trends in Student Aid 2019.

#UAFamily – Engaging and Recruiting Campus Employees and Their Families

Learn how UA Family is facilitating personalized recruitment and enrollment opportunities for families employed by the University of Arizona.

A Place at the Table: Food Insecurity, Financial Aid, and Funding Success

Experts discuss and share policies, practices, and solutions that aim to fund and support students who may be at risk of food insecurity.

All Means All: Fostering a Successful Culture of AP for All

Boca Ciega High (Fl.) and Oak Park High School (Mo.) are committed to a successful AP experience. Learn about the path they forged to increase opportunities.

Beyond the Numbers: Why You Want the “Data People” at the Table

Learn how professionals at four institutions have helped stakeholders understand the context and nuance of data to make strategy and policy decisions.

Counselors and College Board Opportunity Scholarships

This interactive workshop will show counselors how their students can earn chances to win scholarship money while taking basic college planning steps.

FAFSA Completion: A Critical Step in the College Enrollment Process

FAFSA Completion: Initiatives that are moving the needle.

High-Impact Signature Work in Advanced Placement

Expert AP teachers and AP with We Service share innovative high-impact practices that boost the first-year momentum aligned to college engagement and success.

Implications of Racial Discrimination for Students of Color

This session examines how participation in a precollege access program influences how students respond to experiences of racial discrimination.

Improving College Match for Talented, Lower-Income Students

This session shares new insights about the practices that can improve college matching for talented, lower-income, and first-generation students.

No Labels!

Join an expert panel to understand the additional challenges faced by LGBTQ youth and the role of school counselors.

Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy to Increase College and Career Options

Participants will learn to create a schoolwide practice plan to increase SAT scores for students using College Board’s Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy®.

Rewarding Go-Getters: K–12 Strategies to Clear a Path to College

This panel will spotlight tools and strategies used by winning districts in the Great City Schools–College Board Opportunity Scholarships Challenge.

Roundtable: Military-Connected Students: Veterans, Spouses, and Their Children

This panel will discuss the strengths of military-connected students and how to improve recruiting, admissions, and college success.

What to Do When Financial Aid Alone Won’t Move the Needle

The presidents of Agnes Scott College and the College of Wooster present perspectives on how market-informed institutional strategy can positively impact enrollment results including net revenue.

What’s Next for Your Undocumented Students? A Systems Approach for Leaders

Participants will use a systems approach to build capacity in their districts to support undocumented students throughout the college process.

Beyond Tuition: Getting to the True Cost of Attendance

Multiple stakeholders will share how they tackle the complexities of indirect expense calculations and how those costs are communicated to students.

Changing Tides: International Student Decision Making and Mobility

Patterns in international student mobility are shifting. How can universities identify, recruit, and attract qualified international students?

Community College Success: Student Perspectives & Institutional Practices

Showcasing student and institutional perspectives on community college success and the structures, services, and practices that enable it.

Elevating the Mission: How Higher Ed Can Support K–12 Counseling

UT Austin will share what they’ve learned and suggest how other states can leverage higher education to support college and career counseling.

Expanding College Access Through Community, Insight, and Joy

Learn how Common App and Reach Higher together are improving pathways for students by addressing logistical and systemic barriers to college access.

Holistic Review and Public Institutions: A UC Case Study

In this session we explore strategies to help public institutions implement holistic review policies, using the University of California as a case study.

K–12 Instruction from Student Results

PSAT and SAT results are not just for college admission anymore.This session shows how portal data can be used to guide K–12 instruction.

New Aid Directors Speak Out

New financial aid directors reflect on the joys and challenges of their new positions.

Roundtable:Beyond the Buzzwords: What It Means to Truly Center Students

An interactive roundtable with Texas higher education professionals working to shift policies, practice, and culture to ensure student success.

SAT Validity Research: Sharing Insights from Studies Hot Off the Press

This session will review recent SAT validity research examining relationships between SAT scores, college performance, and retention to second year.

Scholarships that Change Lives: Using the PSAT-Related Assessments to Create Opportunity

Leading national scholarship organizations and College Board outline the effects of their data-based partnership and opportunities for students.

Stop, Collaborate, and Listen!

Collaboration across district personnel at all levels supports the needs of a diverse student population and leads to significant student success.

The Art and Science of Advising: Using Data to Drive Student Outcomes

College Board has piloted a set of tools to support counselors that combine data with evidence-based interventions to drive better student outcomes.

Transcript and Profile Considerations in the Age of Landscape™

Landscape™ has not diminished the importance of transcripts and school profiles. Both are more important than ever.

Networking Center

Stop by to network with colleagues and learn about College Board programs and initiatives.

Exploring Cross-Border Collaborations Through the India Global Higher Education

Learn about the College Board India Higher Education Alliance. Opportunities for cross-border collaboration will be discussed.

Eye on Washington: Looking Ahead at Federal Higher Education Policy

What's happening in federal higher education policy? A look at latest developments in college affordability, debt, and accountability.

Landscape™: Admissions Use, Reactions, and Findings

Researchers and practitioners will detail the components of high school and neighborhood context information and how admissions is integrating this data in decision making.

Legal and Ethical Issues for School and College Counselors

This session will guide participants in an examination of legal and ethical issues in the dynamic college admissions process.

Maximizing Partnerships to Impact Performance, Starting with Pre-AP

This presentation discusses how an Illinois urban high school district used Pre-AP, AP Potential™, and the full AP curriculum to increase achievement and advanced placement enrollment.

AP Computer Science Principles for Students with Disabilities

This panel session will feature three experienced computer science high school teachers whose students are blind, deaf, or learning disabled.

Collaboration in Spite of Competition (What They Don't Tell You)

This session will focus on how teamwork, collaboration, and information sharing can contribute to success for competing institutions.

College Readiness: Promoting Equity and Excellence Through Partnerships

The session will discuss a groundbreaking partnership of high school counselors and college advisors to increase college readiness.

Comparing Admissions Approaches Across International Higher Ed Contexts

The world of higher ed opportunities is expanding. This session will help counselors guide students to right-fit global universities across borders.

Emergency Aid: A Critical Component of a Holistic Student Success Model

This session will cover the development of Florida International University’s Emergency Aid program and provide an overview of successful strategies and lessons learned.

Identifying Talent and Potential Using Noncognitive Admissions Measures

This presentation describes enrollment leaders' efforts using noncognitive measures that go beyond traditional admissions metrics.

It May Not Be the System We Deserve, But It's the One We Have

Let's explore the pressures that impact the processes in college admission counseling and work collaboratively to problem-solve the issues.

Measuring High School and Neighborhood Information: Research and Practical Use

Researchers and practitioners will detail the components of educational disadvantage and how admissions is integrating this data in decision making.

New Data on Indigenous Scholars' Financial Need and College Choice

Indigenous Education Inc., home of the Cobell Scholarship, shares data from a multiyear study of Indigenous students' financial need and college choice.

Purpose & Partnerships: Mental Health Strategies for Higher Education

This session will focus on strategies related to mental health from a public health and system-level perspective.

Roundtable: I Broke the Glass Ceiling—It's Lonely at the Top!

Sexism and workplace bias—what happens when you get to the top? How do you succeed and thrive facing unenlightened men and competitive women?

This Wasn't in the Manual: How We Managed and Led Through Crisis

Hear a discussion of selfless acts of courage, support, public statements of compassion to those impacted, but what does it really mean to lead through a crisis?

Value of Clarity: Communicating Aid & Access from Recruitment to Graduation

In this session financial aid professionals share their experience working with admissions, advising, retention, and other campus colleagues to reinforce aid and access as part of campus culture.

Aligning Efforts: Using the PSAT-Related Assessments to Reduce Remediation in Maine

This will be an overview of how Maine’s community colleges shifted to the PSAT-related assessments to reduce remediation while increasing college-going rates.

AP in Connecticut: A State and District Approach to Expanding Access

Learn about a state and district partnership to achieve AP success. Milford and West Hartford, Conn., have increased AP access with dramatic results.

Building a Successful Pre-AP Program

Join us to learn about the College Board’s Pre-AP Program, and hear from partner schools on their process to successful implementation.

College Access Goes Mobile: Using Texting to Break Down College Prep Barriers

UCLA is reaching students in grades 8–11 who don't think college is in their future by inspiring them through text messaging to plan for college.

College Is Unaffordable. Is Free College the Answer?

Mounting evidence demonstrates that college is unaffordable for potential students. Is free college the answer to the growing affordability divide?

Facilitating College Transitions for Students with Extraordinary Challenges

Grounded in educational equity, this session examines efforts to ensure college success for students facing extraordinary challenges.

Institutional Support Outside Financial Aid Award

This session explores how institutions support financial aid recipients, particularly low-income students, outside of the financial aid award.

Lessons Learned from Studying 800,000+ Text Messages

This session presents the results and implications of a national two-way text message project, from the struggles of college-bound seniors to the craft of advising by text.

Maslow Before Bloom: Social & Emotional Learning for Student Success

Learn how districts and schools have been able to strike a balance between academic achievement and social and emotional learning through MTSS.

Reimagining Inclusion for a Global Higher Education Context

Hear directly from talented international students, representing low-income and refugee backgrounds, about the impact of expanding college access globally.

Rethinking EM and the Role of the University Enrollment Leader

Using the College Board brief, The Future of Enrollment Leadership, as backdrop, let's discuss and share perspectives on rethinking the enrollment leader role.

Service Mindsets vs. Service Hours: Weighing Service in Selective Admissions

Session examining how selective college admission and scholarship committees define and evaluate service in high school students’ experiences.

The Consequences of College Fit on Financial Circumstances in Adulthood

This session will discuss the long-term financial consequences of academic and financial college fit.

The Path to Financial Aid Offer Letter Transparency

This session follows the path of three universities as they work to bring clarity and transparency to paying for college through the award letter.

Career Finder

Learn about Career Finder: an online, personalized career exploration tool connected to the SAT Suite of Assessments.

A Comprehensive Approach to Addressing Food and Housing Insecurity

This session will discuss the comprehensive framework implemented by California State University to address basic needs across 23 campuses.

Creating Pathways to Latino Leadership in Higher Education

This session will explore strategies institutions can implement to foster more Latino participation in senior-level higher education administration.

Critical Consciousness: Bridge the Equity Gap for Underrepresented Students

Through a critical consciousness lens, educators will redesign lessons in order to increase student engagement and promote relevant critical thinking.

Examining Bias in Curricular Materials

The presenter demonstrates how to use "The 7 Forms of Bias Protocol" to thoroughly vet instructional materials for bias and address it when identified.

Improving the AP Program at a Large Urban School, Philadelphia PA

Examine the plans that moved Philadelphia's Northeast HS from 10% of students earning college-eligible scores to 52%. This session is for the urban school context.

Retention Begins with the Product

Retention begins by providing distinctive academic and social experiences, attracting students who will be well served by the institution and graduate.

Roundtable: The High School Profile in Admissions: We Want Your Input

This session presents an analysis of the H.S. profile in admissions and a dialogue between school counselors and college admission officials to explore enhancements of the tool.

Strategies for Building Equitable Pipelines for Underrepresented Students

Explore research on pipelines for underrepresented students and discuss the responsibilities of postsecondary institutions in expanding pathways.

Stress, Anxiety, and Student Health: Addressing a Growing Trend in Schools

Student stress increases yearly, yet the causes are unclear. This session explores the possible sources and details our efforts to help students.

Summer Melt—What Is It and What Can Be Done to Prevent It?

Summer Melt is when high school seniors say they will attend college, yet don’t show up in the fall. Why does this occur and how can it be prevented?

Supporting AP Teachers: A Guide for School Leaders

Learn how school leaders are using the new the AP resources to support AP teachers and improve student learning.

The Struggle Is Real: Implementing Strategies to Address Basic Needs

This session will present how the CSU campus system is addressing student food and housing insecurity concerns and their impact on academic performance.

Tools to Bring Advanced Placement to Small Towns and Rural Communities

We'll explore how to bring AP to scale in small towns and rural areas through robust virtual education programs.

Working Together to Pave the Way for College Success

Explore how high schools and community colleges are collaborating with four-year institutions to create a successful path for college readiness.

You Want Me to Recruit Where?

Learn how Texas Tech University uses multiple tools available from the College Board to plan recruitment travel and research high schools in a new territory.

Networking Center

Stop by to network with colleagues and learn about College Board programs and initiatives.

Activating the Power of Privilege for Good, Not Evil

Discuss ways to use the privilege you may have in your position to benefit colleagues and students in the transition to higher education.

AP Capstone and Admission: Identify and Attract AP Capstone Candidates

Admission leaders: learn about the AP Capstone program and best practices to identify and attract AP Capstone Diploma candidates to your institution.

Build Your College-Ready Culture with Pre-AP, AP, and the SAT Suite of Assessments

Building a college-going culture in your high school requires alignment of challenging coursework and purposeful, informative assessments.

Creating District Opportunities for College Access

Explore how implementing additional support within the high school can increase student participation toward the college transition.

Degree in Three: Simplified Path Between Three Institutions in Three Years

Learn how three schools partnered to design a new path to a bachelor of science in business while reducing costs and time to graduation for local high school students.

Developing a Consent Process for Need-Based Aid Recipients to Release PII

This session will review the law and associated guidance for sharing student personally identifiable information, as well as the collaborative process for developing and refining the consent process.

From Start to Finish: Creating Successful Outcomes for Minorities in STEM

This case study provides hope and help for those struggling with low persistence of students in STEM. Come to engage, be encouraged, and extrapolate.

How AP Courses Fit Within Career and Technical Education Programs

Presenters will walk through how AP can be embedded into career and technical education (CTE) programs of study.

Income Share Agreements: University of Utah, Purdue, and Lumina Foundation

Featuring multiple views, we will provide insight into institutional implementation of income share agreements to address college cost and completion.

Increasing Options: Adding CLEP as an Early College Credit Opportunity

School and district leaders discuss how to incorporate CLEP as a means to expand college access and provide early college credit opportunities.

Race Neutral Strategies Under Federal Nondiscrimination Law: An Evolving Lens

This interactive session will cover legal baselines and policy guidance when considerations of race and ethnicity are present in enrollment policy.

Roundtable: Models of Practice: Using Official SAT Practice in the Classroom

This session examines how teachers are using Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy® given their unique school and district contexts.

Undocumented Student Development: Statewide Partnerships and High-Impact Practices

This session will map out the steps that led up to developing a statewide coalition for working on undocumented student issues on college campuses in Washington state.

“How Much Is Enough?” The Impact of AP Courses on Selective Admissions

Hear a panel discussion between a high school growing their AP program and selective college deans of admission based on research titled “How Much is Enough?”.

Advanced Placement (AP) and Students with Special Needs: A Growing Reality

This presentation will outline effective instructional and differentiation strategies to better blend gifted students with special needs into the AP classroom.

Bridging the Divide Between Faculty and Financial Aid Staff

Faculty and staff discuss collaborative practices that support students at risk and share data on how working together leads to student success.

Communicating Cost: The New and Improved Award Letter

New America and uAspire have done the research and led the discussion on award letter best practices. Institutions listened and put the findings into place. Come join the conversation.

Counseling or Coaching? Transformative or Transactional?

Do students and parents today want coaching instead of counseling, strategy instead of advice? How can we transform lives in a transactional world?

Creating Free College Credit Opportunities for HS Students

This session will examine how Thomas Jefferson HS is reducing college costs for students and providing additional access to academic resources.

Delivering on the Promise? College Credit in High School and Financial Aid

Does earning college credit in high school help to defray college costs? Panelists discuss basic questions college-bound students should explore.

Expanding Equity and Access to AP Capstone Using Practice Field Research

AP Capstone™ schools learn about an engaging creative approach to recruit nontraditional students using creative and playful practice campus research.

How Simple Adjustments to Search Practices Can Supercharge Recruitment

Learn how three colleges stopped missing the students their campuses wanted and needed by using best practices developed by the College Board.

I Read "Hillbilly Elegy," Now What? Improving Results for Rural Students.

29% of rural students enroll in college compared to 47% of their nonrural peers. Fortunately, research shows what causes this gap and how to close it.

Roundtable: #RealTalk with Students

Join students from the College Board's Advisory Panel on Student Opportunity as they share perspectives about issues in education.

Supporting High-Achieving Marginalized Students at Two-Year Institutions

Come explore strategies for supporting high-achieving, low-income, and underrepresented students at two-year institutions, preparing them to transfer.

The Early Show: Understanding Early Decision & Early Action Plans

An expert panel will address recent national trends in Early Decision (binding) and Early Action (nonbinding) admission decision plans.

The Kids Are All Right

Gain ideas on what you can immediately implement to address behaviors of stress and anxiety within your student community.

Writing Across Disciplines

Success in academic writing requires learning to read like a writer. Context is key. Our panel will demonstrate an interdisciplinary approach.