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Wednesday, October 22, 2014

College Application Essay Sample

The new issue of the magazine, “College Xpress,” has a nice sample of a good admission essay – and it’s even from an Oregon school, Willamette!
Here’s the link, and it’s on page 18. There are also copies of the magazine in the office – and we will make copies of the essay to add to the samples in the Forms Drawer.

http://www.carnegiecomm.com/media/uploads/file/cx_fall_2014.pdf

WOU Creative Arts Day

Finally a day for your art students.  WOU is pleased to announce our first annual Creative Arts Day on November 21, 2014.  We have spent over a year designing a day for high school art students that would be a day of being artists, actors and musicians.  In keeping with our mission of serving Oregon and its students, there will be no charge to students, counselors or teachers to attend this event, parking is also free.

I am thrilled at the quality and breadth of the hands-on workshops that will be offered to your junior and senior students.  Seniors will also have the opportunity to bring a completed application for admissions and receive an answer the same day.

Please inform your students and teachers of this event that covers all four academic departments (dance, fine arts, music and theatre) within the WOU Creative Arts Division. 

More information regarding program registration and workshop descriptions are available at www.wou.edu/creativeartsday


9:00-10                 Registration at Werner University Center
10-11                     Welcome and admission and financial aid/scholarship presentation (Pacific Room)
11-11:50               Workshops
12-12:30               Lunch with WOU students and faculty
12:30-1                 Tour of WOU Creative Arts facilities
1-1:50                   Workshops
2                            Closing comments and admission decision
2:15                       Campus tour (optional)                


Workshops (all hands-on events)

ART DEPARTMENT WORKSHOPS: Drawing or Image Transfer, Monotype Printmaking, Steampunk Sculpture, Expressive Digital Images, Art Press Relief Tiles 

DANCE DEPARTMENT WORKSHOP:  Hip Hop Dance

MUSIC DEPARTMENT WORKSHOPS: Blues Jam Session, and Hit Record!

THEATER DEPARTMENT WORKSHOPS: Stage Combat! Breathing Life Into Shakespeare, and Stephen Sondheim’s “Company”


Thank you



Dave  McDonald
Associate Provost
Western Oregon University

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

OSAC Scholarships Awarded by College

View / Print the Report

OSAC Scholarship Statistics by School

These stats are for year before last – but, as you can see, YC isn’t the only school that has few kids getting awards through OSAC.

Several ASPIRE coordinators have mentioned that the odds seem to go up when mentors actually sit with a student and work through the scholarship choice/filtering. Or at least get them started. Something to consider with your seniors this year.
 
View / Print the Report

Some Important Links

·        Link to ASPIRE Toolkit
Amazing good stuff here: Be sure to click on the FILE CABINET, which leads to even more resources.

One idea might be watch one of the short ASPIRE You Tube videos with students – and/or send them the links to do so themselves. Some good ones they could watch with parents as well.

The site is bookmarked on the ASPIRE office  computers. If you have ANY trouble accessing it, please let me know!

·        Link to ASPIRE You Tube channel


·        Link to new ASPIRE for the community video everyone is asked to review.

·        Link to FAFSA Help You Tube channel

·        Direct link to CIS  (User is YCHS / password is Tiger if link gives you trouble)


·         Link to new intake survey that ALL students – new and returning – must take. . It really only has maybe eight questions, so is real quick. Please and thank you!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CXL78GD

CIS Fall Workshops

Career Information Systems (CIS) is offering some complimentary workshops next month. Feel like my own knowledge of CIS is only skin deep, so I plan to attend the one at PCC/Cascade campus in Portland from 12:30-3:30 p.m. on Oct. 17.


From: Aspireoregon [mailto:aspireoregon-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of ELLIS Lorianne
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2014 3:55 PM
To: aspireoregon@listsmart.osl.state.or.us
Subject: [Aspireoregon] CIS Fall workshops on the way

CIS Fall workshops are coming in October
 
ASPIRE volunteers are encouraged to learn more about CIS by attending a complimentary CIS 2014 fall workshop. This year CIS staff will travel to 13 cities throughout Oregon to provide hands-on training.  Training on the Site Administration Tools is included, along with information on new tools, such as the Application Tracker for college and scholarship applications, the Dependable Strengths Assessment, and CIS-Connection as the tool to connect students with community volunteers.

These trainings are very popular and offer quality time to network with regional colleagues while learning to use CIS efficiently and effectively.  To view a workshop schedule and to register for a fall workshop go to: https://oregoncis.uoregon.edu/workshops/register14.aspx

Thank you for your help,


Cheryle Hawkins
User Support Specialist
hawkinsc@uoregon.edu
541.346.2361

Oregon Career Information System
1244 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403
http://oregoncis.uoregon.edu