Colorado
In 2010-11, College Summit-Colorado is helping build a stronger college-going culture and helping launch 875 students to college and career success. We will serve 520 students in grades 9-11 (through our “Launch” model) to help them explore and build competencies that will help them successfully navigate the college application process in their senior year. We will also support and guide 355 seniors through the postsecondary planning process with skills in organization, planning, and self-advocacy to help them graduate from high school and reach their postsecondary destination.
Current high school partners for 2010-11: Manual High School, KIPP Collegiate High School, Colorado High School Charter, Denver School of Science and Technology (Denver Public Schools); Global Leadership Academy, Mapleton Early College, Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, Skyview Academy, York International (Mapleton Public Schools).
Accomplishments
Strong evidence exists that a college-going culture shift is taking place within partner schools:
• College Summit high schools across the country have raised their school-wide college enrollment rates, on average, by more than 20% over their own baselines.
• Since partnering with College Summit in 2004, Mapleton Public School’s college enrollment rate has increased by 51%.
• In 2009-10, 93% of students from our partner schools applied to college (above average).
• 99% of Class of 2009 Mapleton Public School students submitted college applications and over 91% received acceptances.
What's New
Great Mentors Needed at MESA!
Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts (MESA), is looking for 35 great mentors this school year. Interested in mentoring? Please contact Monica Breed at movinlong@hotmail.com There is an informational meeting is Monday August 16th from 5:30-6:30pm at MESA in Room 9B2.
> Read moreStudents from our partner schools are now attending one of two of our signature summer workshops at Regis University. The workshops are being held from July 15 – July 18, 2010 and July 22 – July 25, 2010. Each workshop will feature high impact student leadership activities, intensive sessions with a college coach, and writing coach during which students complete significant components of a college application.
> Read moreCollege Summit Colorado is pleased to announce that we have been selected to receive Impact Investment funding from Mile High United Way. The funding will be used for our work within their Youth Success Initiative. www.unitedwaydenver.org
Substantiation of Need
“Help Wanted: Projections of Jobs and Education Requirements Through 2018,” a report on educational concentrations of job openings in the United States, confirmed:
• Colorado will be one of five states to lead the nation in job openings requiring Bachelor’s degrees by 2018
• Almost seven out of 10 job openings in Colorado will require applicants to have a post-high school education by 2018.
• That puts our state second in the nation, behind Massachusetts, for percentage of job listings eight years from now that will require college experience.
Reference: Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2010
There is a dire need for our services in Colorado, which ranks 41st in the nation in terms of the college-going rate for low-income youth, and where students of color, in particular, are more likely to drop out of high school than to graduate.
• In most of the communities we serve, high school completion and Bachelor’s degree attainment rates fall below state and national averages
• College graduates have historically earned ~$1 million more over a lifetime than high school graduates [U.S. Census]
• Children of college graduates are twice as likely to attend college [U.S. Census]
• Additionally, college graduates are less likely to rely on government assistance programs, and they contribute more to fund these programs [Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, Columbia University]
• The unemployment rate for college graduates is less than half the jobless rate for those with no college experience [Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, Columbia University]
To help more students graduate high school college-ready, American high schools need a vital college-going culture that moves more students along the path to college. We have shown that keeping students on the college-ready path even in just 12th grade results in increased college enrollment rates.
By starting in 9th grade, schools can build a college-ready culture that helps more students get on that path, and stay on it, through the completion of high school. We believe this can be achieved by applying the system (personal advising, peer motivation, process streamlining, and performance management) that has worked so effectively in 12th grade throughout high school.
Don Cheadle College Summit Founding Spokesman
Learn more about College Summit by watching this informational video.
