The College Advising Corps seeks to help more Maryland students attend college or other postsecondary training. Through a generous gift from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, recent Loyola graduates and graduate students will be able to serve as college advisors in selected public high schools throughout the state. Advisors will assist students with admission, financial aid and scholarship applications.

• Job Description
• Application (pdf)
• Recommendation Form (pdf)

About the Program

In March 2007, The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation awarded Loyola College in Maryland a $1 million grant as part of a nationwide initiative aimed at significantly increasing college enrollment and graduation among low-income high school and community college students. To read the press release about the grant, click here. Following in the tradition of the AmeriCorps and Teach for America programs, the College Advising Corps initiative recruits Loyola seniors and graduate students to work as advisors for one to two years in high schools throughout Maryland with low college-going rates and large numbers of low-income students. Over four years, the program will provide one-on-one advising to more than 7,000 Maryland high school students. The Loyola program is based on a successful model devised by the University of Virginia and funded by the Foundation. 

Application Information

• Applicants must be graduating seniors at Loyola College in Maryland or graduate students.
• College advisors will serve for the 2008-2009 school year, with the option of renewing for a second year. Advisors will also participate in a six-week training session during the summer before employment begins.
• Advisors will receive a $10,000 stipend, $10,000 for housing and a $5,000 grant to be used for college loan repayment or future education. Advisors will also receive health benefits.
• For more information, contact Cheryl Moore-Thomas at cmoore4@loyola.edu or 410-617-1511, or Jennifer Lyall at 410-617-5094.
• Application deadline is February 1, 2008 by 4 p.m. Submit completed applications to Jennifer Lyall in the Education Department (BE104).
  

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