College Readiness Consortium

CRC facilitates ongoing learning meetings both virtually and in-person for the Pre-College Network, a group of roughly 400 UMN youth program leaders located on all five campuses, who expose youth to lifelong learning, career exploration and college preparedness. The CRC partners with Health, Safety, and Risk Management, which provides required and optional training for youth program leaders in order to maintain high standards for safety for children while on UMN campuses, in compliance with the Safety of Minors Policy. 

Recognizing the drop in FAFSA fill out rates across the country after the pandemic, particularly in schools with underserved students,  CRC created a campaign to heighten awareness and offer tools to help boost form completion. A social media campaign was implemented, which is now done annually, and CRC hosted a webinar featuring four panelists with expertise in this area: UMN’s Richard Campo, Assistant Director of One Stop Services and Kaity Sharp, Student Finance Counselor, and two school counselors from Osseo and Stillwater High Schools.

CRC is working with Writing Across the Curriculum to offer Teaching with Writing  programming that focuses on AI and writing  to local Ramp-Up schools, and CRC and WAC are in the initial stages of planning a webinar that will focus on all the different kinds of writing that students might be expected to do in college. CRC is excited to explore future collaborations with WAC.