New Attendee Welcome

Hear tips for navigating the Forum and becoming more engaged as College Board members.

Past, Present, and the Pursuit of Promise

Join College Board President David Coleman and J.B. Milliken, Chancellor of the University of Texas System.

Elevating Civics Education

This session will address the need for stronger civics education in K–12 and higher education, positioning the SAT and AP as two examples of programs with scale.

How the SAT Serves Campus Needs Beyond Admission

Hear how enrollment leaders at several institutions are using traditional admission measures, including SAT scores, for more than just admission.

The Environmental Context Dashboard: New Results from the Pilot

Admission leaders and researchers will provide updates on the environmental context dashboard pilot, including results and plans for future use.

Trends in Higher Education 2018

This session will highlight the latest findings from Trends in College Pricing 2018 and Trends in Student Aid 2018.

Beyond Enrollment Management

This session will explore how enrollment managers and financial aid practitioners can share what they know about their students in meaningful ways.

Bridges to AP: Year Round Supports Help Increase Student Performance

Shaker Heights High School’s Bridges program, for history, math, and English, results in substantial increases in minority student participation in AP.

Building A Viable College to Career Pipeline through HE & Industry Partners

An exploration of the 60x30 TX initiative formed by the USHCCF and UT Arlington, which will develop a college-to-career pipeline.

Central Ohio Urban Districts Initiative: Eliminating the Achievement Gap

Otterbein University has increased enrollment of students of color and eliminated the achievement gap in retention rates. Learn how you can too.

Documenting Student Success in the Information Age

This session will talk about the work of the Comprehensive Learner Records (CLR) project, including examples of some of the innovative new digital student records.

First-Generation College Students: Bridging the Gaps to Access and Success

A discussion of challenges faced by first-generation college students during the application process and once they're enrolled.

First-Generation Counseling Professionals

Hear from college counselors who were the first in their family to attend college about how they counsel students and interact with elite educational institutions.

Have Private K–12 Schools Hijacked College Savings?

In 20 years, colleges have failed to promote 529 savings plans. In just two months, private K–12 embraced them! What’s the future of 529 college savings?

Holistic Admission: One Size Does Not Fit All

As the number of qualified applicants continue to rise, it is often difficult to make admission decisions. In this session experts will explore this difficult issue.

Keyboard Surfing: Keys to Deepening Conceptual Knowledge Across Curriculum

This session will focus on strategies to meet students’ needs with implementation of backward design and multiple forms of assessments.

More Than Filling in Circles—Test Scores’ Role Beyond College Selection

Professionals share their input on how high-stakes tests can engage students, guide decisions on college and major, admission selection, and support services.

Personalizing Learning in AP Classes

We will provide teachers and administrators with specific strategies and ideas for implementing personalized learning in AP courses.

Roundtable: Measuring the Impact of Student Recruitment on Access and Equity

Discover and quantify the powerful impact of student recruitment by colleges on student score sending and enrollment patterns.

Student Retention Strategies: Tailored Approaches to Improving Retention

Join representatives from a diverse group of schools as we unpack our retention strategies and outcomes.

What We Learned One Year Into Awarding Completion Grants

Financial aid leaders will share how they implemented completion grants on four campuses, what they learned, and results from preliminary research.

Accelerate Student Success with Multiple Factors

The best practice for placing students is to use academic and non-academic multiple factors along with ACCUPLACER test scores.

Apricots to Amazon: Leveraging partnerships for a college-going culture

A panel of administrators, teachers, and counselors will share insights on building partnerships to support first-generation students.

Canceled: Supporting Undocumented Students and Families from K-12 to Higher Education

This session will focus on ways in which educators can aid students who come to them with questions about their immigration status.

Clearing a Path to College and Career Readiness: Pre-AP for All Students

Learn what it means to be an official College Board Pre-AP school from the leaders and designers of the program.

Colleges’ Experiences Using MyinTuition to Simplify College Cost Estimates

Financial aid directors that have adopted MyinTuition at schools with widely varying financial aid practices will describe their experiences.

Comparing Admissions Approaches Across International Higher Ed Contexts

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

Federal Verification: Obstacles and Opportunities

In this session learn more about the National College Access Network’s advocacy efforts to decrease verification.

Go AP! Strategies for Building AP Culture

Learn how a small high school grew an AP program from zero AP classes to more than 25% of the student body enrolled in seven AP courses over five years.

High School Academic Achievement and College Pathways for Native Americans

This session discusses American Indian and Alaska Native student identities and how they relate to high school performance and college pathways.

Leverage Technology for Institutional Efficiency

Learn how admission offices are using customer relationship management systems (CRMs) to monitor and motivate staff to complete their assigned tasks efficiently.

MyCoalition: Pathway to Smart College Choices

Learn about MyCoalition, a set of free online college planning tools that helps students learn about, prepare for, and apply to college.

Opening Up Access in the AP Classroom

This session will provide teaching strategies that support students in open access AP classrooms.

Roundtable: When Disaster Strikes: How Colleges Prepare and Respond

This session explores the many ways colleges and universities have responded to various natural disasters to support students and staff.

Using Portfolios and Multimedia in Admissions

This session explores various ways institutions have implemented less traditional application components.

Using the SAT Suite of Assessments to Change Outcomes

This session offers best practices from educators who implemented multiple assessments in the SAT Suite to expand college readiness, followed by a Q&A session.

Regional Receptions

Join us at your regional reception.

Building a Successful Pre-AP Program

This session will explore the driving forces behind the development of Pre-AP, the instructional shifts addressed in each discipline, and the core components of the new Pre-AP Program.

Exploring the Role of Enrollment Management in Comprehensive Internationalization

This discussion will explore strategies and best practices for admissions offices to contribute to the internationalization of college campuses, classrooms, and communities.

Eye on Washington: Looking Ahead at Federal Higher Education Policy

Session participants will review the latest news from Congress and the Trump administration and will consider possible implications for higher education leaders.

Higher Ed Perceptions of Rural Communities

Despite much research on populations underrepresented in higher education, rural students have received relatively little attention.

Beyond Admissions: Applying Federal Nondiscrimination Laws to Financial Aid

This session offers best practices to ensure your school's financial aid policies align with current legal practice as it relates to race and ethnicity.

College and Career Readiness: The Role of School Counselors

Learn how to improve your students' college and career readiness using the College Board's guidelines for the role of school counselors.

Communicating Cost: A Comparative Analysis of Award Letters

This session will explore how different financial aid notification formats, terms, and other factors help or hinder student understanding and decision making.

Enrollment Projections Extreme: When Historical Data Do Not Apply

With Common Application implementation and other changes, our usual models were practically useless. Here’s how Indiana University landed its class in a year of data chaos.

First-Generation College Student Success: Thriving To and Through

Learn how colleges can better support first-generation students through academic and career help, mentorship programs, and financial resources.

How Are Students from Low- and Middle-Income Families Paying for College?

This session will highlight findings from the 2015-16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey on how students from low- and middle-income families are paying for college.

Managing Difficult Conversations About Admission and Financial Aid

This session will address deciding where to apply, denied admission, waitlisted students, lack of merit eligibility, and financial aid eligibility.

Mind the Gap: Integrating Strategies for Serving Underrepresented Students

This session explores the value of incorporating enrollment and persistence goals to increase underrepresented students into a larger institution-wide strategy

Rethinking Financial Aid: Innovation, Strategies, and Outcomes

This interactive financial aid session will provide a toolkit and innovative practices for student and family engagement, staff professional development, and partnerships.

Roundtable: Shining a Light on Our Colorful Campuses

This session will examine the needs of students of color navigating the college admission, selection, and matriculation process.

Sharing Innovative Ideas for Campus Research to Improve Student Outcomes

Learn about exciting campus research studies that can be replicated at your institution to inform decisions and improve student outcomes.

Systems to Support a Strong AP District Leadership Team

Learn how a medium-sized district has implemented and cultivated a district leadership team to support continuous improvement.

Teaching AP Content Through a Virtual Escape Room

We will explore how a virtual escape room works, with embedded opportunities for small group instruction, student-centered learning, and self-pacing.

The Common Application: Lowering the Barriers to College Access and Transfer Admission

Our mission hasn’t changed, but higher education and the students who pursue it have. Come learn about how we are leading this change.

The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility

In this session, practitioners will present research that shows how American colleges do a remarkable job of increasing economic mobility.

Academic Assembly Meeting

Attendees will hear updates from College Board staff, learn what the College Board's Academic Assembly Council has been working on this year and help shape its agenda for 2018/19.

Accelerating Academic Success for Long-Term English Language Learners

This interactive presentation will explore how AVID is supporting college and career readiness for long-term English-language learners.

Advanced Learning Opportunities for All Students: A State Agency Perspective

The Texas Education Agency will explain programs to promote college and career readiness through advanced academics and work experiences.

College Admittance as a Graduation Requirement

In 2012 Corbett School District made it college admittance a graduation requirement. Now 100% of all graduates have been admitted to college.

Creating a More Collaborative Classroom

Participants will explore what student collaboration looks like in the classroom, what makes for purposeful collaboration, and how to use collaboration to formatively assess.

Does Your Admission or Counseling Office Really Promote Racial Equity?

This presentation examines racism in admission and college counseling and explores new approaches that upend many “best practices” in the field.

How Many AP Courses? Using Research to Improve Guidance

Experts will share new research to help educators provide clear, evidence-based guidance to students about rigorous high school coursework.

Inclusion and Free Expression on Today's College Campuses

This Access and Diversity Collaborative session will address the complexity around diversity, inclusion, and free speech on college campuses.

Incorporating Context Data to Improve Scholarship Decision Making

Institutions and scholarship providers will share insights on piloting the environmental context dashboard for scholarship decision making.

Life Just Happened—How Can the Financial Aid Office Help?

This session will help school counselors better understand the financial aid appeals process so they can help students through the process.

Prepare for 2019-20: Launching AP’s New Annual Process

Learn how schools and districts can prepare for the new AP resources and supports launching in 2019-20.

Presenting Financial Aid Award Offers: Thoughts from High School Counselors

Geared toward financial aid professionals, this session will review top questions counselors have about communicating college finances to students and parents.

Rebooting BigFuture to Better Serve Our Students

Hear from the counselors and higher ed professionals guiding the redesign of BigFuture.

Roundtable: SAT Ambassadors

SAT Student Ambassadors promote SAT preparation and encourage other students to practice and use Khan Academy to build skills and confidence.

Social-Emotional Wellness and College and Career Readiness

Let’s consider our roles in creating a supportive college and career readiness culture through a strong foundation in social and emotional learning.

Transfer Admission: Updated Principles from NACAC’s Code of Ethics

Learn about NACAC’s updated Principles of Good Practice for transfers and how it will impact pre-transfer planning services at two- and four-year institutions.

Spotlight: Connecting Students to Scholarships Through the PSAT-Related Assessments

In this spotlight session, learn the structure of these data-informed collaborations, how they have furthered scholarship outreach, and the increased opportunities for students.

Spotlight: A Clearer Path for Your Students: Introducing the College Board Opportunity Scholarships

Learn about the College Board Opportunity Scholarships, a new scholarship program that guides students through the college planning process and offers them a chance to earn money for college.

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.

Boost Motivation and SAT Scores with Khan Academy

The session provides an overview of Hinsdale South High School’s implementation of Khan Academy across curricula in order to provide SAT support for the school’s changing population.

Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity: A College’s Journey

Through targeted programming, Lone Star College and Lee College aim to significantly decrease achievement gaps among underrepresented groups.

Effective Partnerships for Supporting College Readiness and AP Success

Supporting challenging curriculum for all, Irving ISD shares how Advanced Academics partners with curriculum teams for student success.

Embedding College Access In The Public School Classroom

Discover how integrating counseling and classroom practice facilitates a more effective college access cycle for students and professionals.

How These Coaches Are Putting the Student Back into Student-Athlete

Learn about the College Board’s partnership with the Texas High School Coaches Association to mobilize coaches in service of college planning.

Increasing International Diversity at World-Class Universities

This interactive session will highlight efforts to expand college access for talented international students from low-income and refugee backgrounds.

Knowledge Domains for Enrollment Managers: An Emerging Profession

This session will present the results of two studies of enrollment managers, which recommend certain knowledge domains for early career enrollment professionals.

Managing Change in Enrollment

This panel will present case studies in change management at varied institutions.

Mission-Aligned Practices: Enrollment Case Studies

In this session, we will hear about emerging practices and policies that aim to enhance affordability, retention, and completion.

Race to Submit: Supporting All Students to Complete the FAFSA

Professionals in Riverside County, Calif., will share their FAFSA initiative that led to an increase of 6,000 students submitting and is now a statewide campaign.

Roundtable: #RealTalk with Students

Join students from the College Board’s Youth Advisory Council as they share their perspectives on issues in education.

SAT School Day: Expanding Access and Opportunity For Low-Income Students

This session examines SAT participation by low-income students and how the College Board is connecting these students with opportunity, followed by Q&A.

The Early Show: Navigating Early Action and Early Decision

Navigating and understanding the complex system of early action and early decision programs will be discussed in this session.

CSS/Financial Assistance Assembly Meeting

Attendees will hear updates from College Board staff, learn what the College Board's CSS/Financial Assistance Assembly Council has been working on this year and help shape its agenda for 2018/19.

New Excellence, New Opportunity

Join us for a powerful discussion about the new opportunity pipeline, our continued commitment to addressing inequalities.

College Fair and Reception

Join us at the College Fair and reception to network. Refreshments and hors d'oeuvres will be served.

Academic Factors in Admission Review: New Insights and Best Practices

Researchers and admissions leaders will discuss new research and tools developed to improve admission practices, including the use of AP in admission.

Alcanzar sus Sueños: Elevating the Postsecondary Success of DREAMers

At this session, participants will become empowered to deliver the highest-quality access and opportunity to every DREAMer in their school or district.

All Access: Using the SAT Suite to Create College Opportunity and Success

Educators, administrators and scholarship providers share results and best practices for college and career access programs linked to the SAT Suite.

Assisting Veterans in Pursuit of Higher Education

Veteran identification, recruitment, and admission strategies for success in undergraduate programs.

Balancing the Imbalance in College Preparedness

Three schools in Fort Worth ISD compare traditional and nontraditional data to develop a holistic college readiness profile across demographics.

Beneath the Mask: Helping Boys Find Voice in College Admission

This session explores a “boy crisis”—struggles with identity and ambivalent conceptions of masculinity—as boys fall further behind in admission.

Changing the Face of Articulation: a More Seamless Transition for Students

This presentation will focus on the components of the Illinois Articulation Initiative, a statewide transfer agreement that is transferable among more than 100 participating colleges and universities.

College Admissions and Financial Aid: A Panel Discussion

Join higher education leaders to engage in critical discussion about admissions and financial aid trends and challenges.

Dallas County Promise: HS Transformation and Free College Pathways

The sessions will examine the Dallas County Promise, a transformational effort of high schools, colleges, and workforce partners leveraging free college pathways.

Financial Aid Professionals: Ensure Your Voice Is Heard on Campus

Learn how financial aid professionals can position themselves on campus to ensure their voice is heard.

New Financial Aid Directors Speak Out

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

Reimagining the Role of the AP Coordinator

Learn how Orange County Public Schools AP coordinators accepted the challenge to become pedagogical leaders in their schools.

The Impact of AP Coursework on College Matriculation and Selectivity

The results of Hanover Research’s study of Orange County students are presented, focusing on how performance in AP courses is associated with postsecondary enrollment and institutional selectivity.

Advocating for Teacher Leadership in Your AP Program

New York City Department of Education district and school leaders share a model for creating advocacy and action around the need for teacher leaders in AP programs.

Analyzing SAT Essay Data at the Building Level

A session for teachers and instructional leaders, focused on compiling and understanding a schoolwide distribution of essay results to pinpoint key areas of growth.

Building a Foundation to Help Students Thrive Upon College Graduation

Bottom Line’s model of intensive 1:1 support in our Access and Success programs leads to successful career outcomes after graduation.

Coaching Without Content: Using IPR Data to Ask Effective Questions

This session will show administrators and coaches how to drill into instructional planning reports to discover specific questions, start conversations, and shape instruction.

Early College High Schools and Rural Students’ College Readiness

How does Early College enrollment affect readiness and expectations among rural students, and how are colleges responding?

Flipping Financial Aid: Recruitment and Transition for Low-Income Students

Learn how the HAIL Scholarship project at the University of Michigan used state free lunch data to identify, recruit, and enroll low-income students.

Improving Access and Performance in Advanced Placement Courses

In this session, participants will learn how the Houston Independent School District has expanded equity and access to the Advanced Placement Program.

Improving Student Success Through Incentive-Based Scholarships

The University Leadership Network program combines an incentive-based scholarship with student leadership development to encourage four-year graduation.

Increasing College Completion: Solutions from University of Memphis and Complete Florida

Students and institutions benefit from low-cost opportunities for students to earn college credit that accelerate their degree completion.

Micro-Scholarships: Promoting College Access and Student Success

Each year thousands of high school and community college students fail to reach their full potential - Micro-scholarships can change this outcome.

Raising the Standards for All at Oak Park High School

Oak Park staff members will talk about their mission to make sure all their students are ready for college.

Roundtable: Powerful Uses of Instructional Coaches for AP Courses

Join San Antonio ISD in a roundtable discussion on how a team of instructional specialists are leading the way for success in AP classrooms.

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

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.

Counseling and Admission Assembly Meeting

Attendees will hear updates from College Board staff, learn what the College Board's Counseling and Admission Assembly Council has been working on this year and help shape its agenda for 2018/19.

Annual Meeting of the Members

Join the chair of the Board of Trustees, Douglas L. Christiansen and College Board's elected leadership to hear the latest organizational updates.