Phoenix News: City Of Phoenix Offers College Planning Center
Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, city council, school board members and local partners in the field of finance, recently celebrated the opening of a new full-service college planning center of the Central Library Burton Barr in downtown Phoenix.
Developed in partnership between the city of youth and education programs, and the three colleges, College Depot provides access to a variety of free services to help students prepare for higher education.
This achievement, resources and services needed to improve access to information for school planning, financial aid and registration, and contains the following information:
• One-on-one with the help of the college application process;
• Workshops for students and parents about college preparation, financial aid and scholarships, applications, personal preparation and testing;
• College programs for students with the right of universities, scholarships, internships and
• College fairs and events in a bilingual university and community college counselors.
Filing of the Library of the Academy is expected to at least 2500 students and their parents within six months after opening.
“College-Depot is a one-stop shop where students learn everything they wanted to know about the school and to keep the process,” said Mayor Gordon. “If you have a college bound son or daughter, so when you want.”
The city used Community Development Block Grant funds for the construction of a college in the depository library, as well as philanthropic support Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, the Foundation for Education Helios and other foundations and corporate partners in order to maintain current activities.
A member of this partnership is the sharing of resources within the College of Depo success, with employees from different organizations will provide staff support for students on the spot. The parties intend to strengthen cooperation in the funding strategy.
Deborah Dillon, Director of Education Director of the city, described in the City College in the development of the repository.
“Based on the need to plan for universities and secondary schools,” said Dillon. “The city has played a role to convene a small group, plan to develop a plan and resources. It took three years to make them happen.”
According to the United States Census 2007 found that only 15 per cent, or 137,000 people who have a bachelor’s degree from Phoenix 886,000 inhabitants, at least 25 years. But 78 percent have at least a bachelor’s degree.
One of the main challenges to the academy and full participation is access to information on post-secondary education and the application process. Students with low incomes and those who will be the first in their family to apply for college in particular suffer from a lack of this information.
Although Phoenix has over 144 public, private and charter schools in 30 schools, the College of deposit as a source of information for all students in the city. The city hopes that the two concepts of the shop and college partnership model can be supported, for students in other cities in Arizona.