When I started College Summit fifteen years ago, one of the most compelling displays of inequality in post secondary education was that low income students with good grades went to college at a rate lower than affluent students with poor grades. College Summit was in part founded to help create a college-going culture to better support these college-capable lower income students.

According to a recent editorial in Money magazine, editor Pat Regnier acknowledges that this work…

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It turns out that the feature on CSNav with the least exciting name is actually one of the coolest things you’ll find there.  This post (intended for College Summit students) features the School Finder. 

One quick note: After clicking on the links on this page, enter your CSNav username and password, and you will be taken directly to that section of the site.  

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Beef up on your vocabulary, find the right loans for you, share notes and tips with classmates, check out how your professors are rated & more!

How can you use social networking websites to create college-going culture in your school?

-Create a Facebook group for your school and invite all of the peer leaders, educators and 12th graders to join. The group can act as a central hub on Facebook for your project and house links to resources, other initiatives on Facebook, pictures from school events, videos created, Twitter and Myspace, and a community forum for discussion. Events can be tied to the group such as the FAFSA deadline to help students stay on track.

-Create a twitter movement where a senior and 9th grader…

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You may have noticed that there are many places in the Navigator Educator’s Edition where we've recommended for educators to “…check CSNav ProCenter for more information.” Well, now you can! Anyone with a CSNav ProCenter account can now log on, navigate to the “Resources” tab, and access a large variety of material, including:

-Full lesson plans – ideas for extending learning, building background and prior knowledge, or just having more fun with a concept

-Classroom supports – Posters, cards, and reproducibles that…

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