The mission of the SACAC Human Relations Committee is to support multiculturalism within our organization through active programming and to provide outreach services to schools and students lacking a structured college planning program.
A subdivision of the committee addresses multicultural concerns within the organization. This subcommittee has a chairperson who works closely with the human relations committee chair in promoting ideas for diversifying membership and addressing the needs of underrepresented college counselors.
Every year, the committee organizes an outreach project during the annual conference. Two high schools or middle schools are identified in the location where the conference is being held. Within each school, the committee will identify a classroom of students to target for a college planning activity. Over the past three years, eighth and ninth grade students in high school or middle school classrooms in Ft. Lauderdale, New Orleans, and Savannah have been able to experience the college admissions process firsthand. These students served as mock college admission officers for an hour or two. The students were able to decide which case-study applicants would be admitted to a particular college based on a list of admission criteria, a huge success in the last few years.
With the help of funding from NACAC and the SACAC Extending the
Dream project and with individual institution support, the committee
has also been able to sponsor summer camp colleges in North Carolina,
Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. The goal behind these Camp College
programs is to provide high school and middle school students with
the tools and skills necessary to become successful college applicants.
Some of the Camp College sessions include essay writing, resume
building, SAT and ACT preparation, interview skills, and the nuts
and bolts of the college application.
As an ongoing effort, all members of the Human Relations committee are involved in promoting college planning workshops within their local communities. Some future goals of the committee are to establish college planning outreach projects and Camp College programs throughout every state within the SACAC region. There is also a need to provide grants to sponsor underrepresented college counselors who would like to attend the annual conference.
For more information please contact:
Chair, Human Relations Committee -- Vern Granger
Senior Associate Director of Admissions
North Carolina State University
Box 7103, Raleigh, NC 27695
919-515-2434 phone, 919-515-5039 fax
vern_granger@ncsu.edu
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