MOCAN – Missouri College & Career Attainment Network

Sallie Mae Webinar: Admissions Tips
2021-05-13 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-05-12 18:00 - 19:00 (America/Chicago)

DHEWD Bridges to Success Equity Webinar Series: Education for an Equitable Recovery: Meeting the Demands for Community and Technical College in Missouri
2021-05-13 12:00 - 13:00

NCAN Webinar: The Growing Gap, Research on Higher Ed's Declining Affordability for Pell Recipients
2021-05-06 12:00 - 13:00
Please join us for a webinar that will offer an overview of NCAN’s latest “The Growing Gap” report, research findings, interactive dashboard, and state affordability profiles – and to discuss practical takeaways for ​the NCAN community to use these resources to amplify their own work.

Focused Intelligence with Behavior-Based Outreach: Connecting Audiences with Education, Apprenticeships, & Careers
2021-05-04 10:00 - 11:00
The March 2021 NSCRS High School Benchmarks report covering approximately 860,000 graduates from nearly 3,500 high schools indicates that immediate fall postsecondary enrollment rates dropped 4.5X the pre-pandemic rate of decline (-6.8% vs. -1.5%). Even more concerning was the disparity between students of high poverty/low-Income schools. Immediate postsecondary enrollment for students in high poverty schools dropped over 7X that of pre-pandemic declines (-11.4% vs. -1.6%), while low income schools saw an outstanding drop of 13X that of pre-pandemic declines (-10.7% vs. -0.8%).
To help our partners address these dramatic declines and disparities, MOCAN has partnered with WHYSDOM (www.whysdom.com), a need-based behavior and data science company with a comprehensive history in outreach marketing for organizations ranging from Fortune 500 brands to non-profits to local and state communities. Their tools and technologies help identify, locate and connect with audiences and understand the “whys” of audience behavior in real-time.
WHYSDOM has developed a detailed Focused Intelligence resource specifically for MOCAN’s Education and Career professionals. They designed this unique resource to drive highly engaging and relevant communication and activation strategies for Behavior-Based Outreach campaigns and programs. Using WHYSDOM’s location technologies the team first identifies audience location and behaviors utilizing focus areas of emphasis that included Missouri urban and rural audiences of low income, high poverty, and low educational attainment levels.
For each audience segment, WHYSDOM then developed Definitive Plus Persona Sets. These persona sets include; need-based behavior, drivers, segment sizes, audience overview, engagement strategies, key issues, keywords, cultural and content interests, content affinities, outreach approaches, and activation strategies. The top three personas for each focus area include enhanced demographics details such as age, income, education, race/ethnicity, median household income, audience affinity traits indexing, and location traits Indexing.
Personas help outreach professionals create pictures of their audience members. In addition to an outward image, a WHYSDOM’s persona set includes their motivations and behavior and gives you an inward view of your audience. This helps you understand their mindsets and values that drive decisions, see what audiences do through observed behavior, not just what they say they do, explore what’s important to them, and know why it matters. All of this allows you to adjust and adapt your outreach and communications to constantly changing audience behavior.
We complete this picture with recommendations around the type of content your various audience segments absorb, the kind of outreach campaigns that attract them, and how to get their attention. WHYSDOM’s activation strategies help you; apply your new knowledge to content development, deliver relevant contextual messaging at every touchpoint. They guide you in evaluating media buys and even uncover opportunities for new product or service innovations. Content and persona relevant messaging can then be delivered back to any of the given urban or rural audience segments providing optimal return on outreach campaign investments.

St. Louis Graduates Professional Development Institute: Supporting Students Transitioning to STLCC - A Hands-on Overview of Navigate
2021-04-30 10:00 - 11:00

Sallie Mae Webinar: How to Pay the Balance
2021-04-29 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-04-28 19:00 - 20:00

Lumina Foundation Equity First Webinar: A Conversation with Julián Castro
2021-04-27 13:00 - 14:00
Join us for a special conversation in our Equity First Series with Julián Castro, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Mayor of San Antonio, Texas, and Presidential Candidate. This conversation, facilitated by Lumina Foundation Senior Vice President and Chief Policy Officer Dr. Danette Howard, will focus on Secretary Castro’s experiences working at the intersection of public policy, expanding opportunity, and leading for racial equity.

Partners for Education Virtual Rural College Access and Success Summit
2021-04-26 - 2021-04-30
Partners for Education at Berea College and co-host Campus Compact New Hampshire are excited to invite you to the 2021 Rural College Access and Success Summit. This virtual event will be held April 26th to April 30th, 2021. Sessions will run from 1:00pm to 4:30pm (EST) each day preceded by 30 minute networking sessions beginning at 12:30pm.
One of the few national convenings to focus on rural America, the Summit brings together teachers, principals, superintendents, higher education leaders, legislators, and non-profit leaders to share ideas and strategies for ensuring that rural youth have the opportunity to successfully transition from high school to college and career.
We hope you will join us and use the opportunity to open a digital window on your community.

St. Louis Graduates Virtual Professional Development Institute: Career Pathways series with STEMSTL: Supply Chain Logistics and Transportation
2021-04-23 10:00 - 11:00

Missouri State University Virtual Collaborative Diversity Conference
2021-04-21 08:00 - 2021-04-22 16:30

MOACAC Virtual Spring Conference
2021-04-19 - 2021-04-21

Jefferson College Conversations on Diversity: Creating an Inclusive Community to Combat Racism
2021-04-16 13:00 - 14:30

MDHEWD Bridges to Success Webinar: Best Practices for College Access Past, Present, and National Pandemic
2021-04-15 12:00 - 13:00

St. Louis Graduates Virtual Professional Development Institute: Match & Fit: Choosing College Virtually
2021-04-09 10:00 - 11:00

Sallie Mae Webinar with Missouri State Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick: How to Find Free Money and Save for College
2021-04-07 18:00 - 19:00
It is never too late to find free money to help pay for college or to start saving for education! Whether your child or grandchild is getting ready for K-12 or higher education, the time to figure out your options and plan is now. Learn how the MOST 529 Education Plan can be a part of your education savings strategy.
Did you know that there are scholarship opportunities for almost any hobby, talent, interest, or sport which can provide free money that can be used to cover the costs of higher education? To learn more about savings, resources, and scholarships, please join the Missouri State Treasurer’s Office, MOST 529 Education Savings Plan, and Sallie Mae for this free webinar.
You will gain valuable information and tips to maximize your savings and scholarships to apply to your technical, vocational certification, or college degree. We hope you can join us!

MOACAC Show-Me Virtual Spring College Fair
2021-04-06 - 2021-04-08

St. Louis Graduates Virtual Professional Development Institute: Financial Aid series with MASFAP: Year in Review Roundtable: Financial Aid Officers Answer Your Questions About Financial Aid Packages
2021-04-02 10:00 - 11:00

NCAN Webinar: African American Males Pursuing Educational Dreams: AAMPED Up!
2021-03-31 13:00 - 14:00
Join this webinar to learn more about NCAN member Crosby Scholars’ AAMPED – African American Males Pursuing Educational Dreams – program. AAMPED provides workshops specifically for African American males to help them build both life and college success skills. AAMPED also serves to mentor students and their parents along the college and career pathway. The core of the program is designed with workshops and seminars to build skills and relationships that will foster a sense of belonging, and to boost retention in Crosby Scholars’ award-winning college access program.
Presenters will take a deeper dive to help attendees understand AAMPED programming and operations.

NCAN Webinar: Scaling Success Services: Strategies for Promoting Postsecondary Success
2021-03-30 13:00 - 14:00
The year-long pandemic has exacerbated the growing gap in postsecondary enrollment and completion for students of color, first generation to college students and students from low-income backgrounds. Prior to the pandemic, NCAN was working with 12 NCAN member organizations to address these gaps with the generous support of a Michael & Susan Dell Foundation grant. Over a three-year period, these member organizations set out to expand their student success services in their respective communities, and what we learned was a pretty clear formula for scaling success services. We recently documented the experiences of five organizations expanding their college access programs to support students through college completion and invite you to learn more about the useful strategies and approaches they leaned on to promote postsecondary success for their students during this hour-long webinar panel discussion.

St. Louis Graduates Virtual Professional Development Institute: Career Pathways series with STEMSTL: Trades and First Responders
2021-03-26 10:00 - 11:00

Student African American Brotherhood (SAAB) Leadership Training Summit
2021-03-19 - 2021-03-20
The SAAB Leadership Training Summit is designed to effectively engage, develop, and train disadvantaged, underrepresented, and underserved young males of color who have promising futures as leaders, future husbands, and fathers along with becoming productive and contributing citizens in society.

St. Louis Graduates Virtual Professional Development Institute: Match & Fit: Supporting Student Transfer Plans
2021-03-12 10:00 - 11:00

MDHEWD Bridges to Success Webinar: Supporting Student Success and Equity During COVID-19: A Women’s College Success Center Perspective
2021-03-11 12:00 - 13:00

MOCAN in Partnership with NCAN: FCAN Webinar: FAFSA Verification Update - Reducing "Melt" with a More Targeted Approach
2021-03-11 12:00 - 13:00
Too many low-income students experience “verification melt”, according to the National College Attainment Network (NCAN). Roughly half of Pell-eligible FAFSA applicants are flagged for verification, with 25% of them failing to complete the process. For many of these students, it will stymy their college plans all together.
NCAN conducted a comprehensive review looking at the impact of FAFSA verification on Pell Grant awards. Given the burdensome process for students and financial aid departments, is verification achieving its intended purpose of ensuring the integrity of expended funds while delivering aid to Pell-eligible students? NCAN will share important findings that can guide more effective approaches. They will also share updates to the FSA verification targets as well as approaches to use when working with students who have been selected for FAFSA verification.
In this session you will learn:

How the vast majority of students selected for verification see no change to their Pell award.
How differentiating between auto-zero and non-auto-zero EFC applicants can improve approaches while reducing the burden of the verification process.
Recent changes to the FSA verification target.
Best practices to use when working with students selected for FAFSA verification.

St. Louis Graduates Virtual Professional Development Institute: Financial Aid series with MASFAP: Gap Funding and Scholarships: Helping Students and Families Understand their Bill
2021-03-05 10:00 - 11:00

Lumina Foundation Webinar: Equity First - A Conversation with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
2021-03-03 14:00 - 15:00
Join us for a special conversation in our Racial Justice and Equity Series with Dr. Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award winner and author of How to Be an Antiracist, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America, and editor of Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019. Dr. Kendi leads the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. This conversation, facilitated by Lumina Foundation Senior Vice President and Chief Policy Officer Dr. Danette Howard, will explore how racism and inequity are entrenched and advanced through public policy, and how public policy can become a tool for equity and justice.

St. Louis Graduates Virtual Professional Development Institute: Career Pathways series with STEMSTL: Information Technology & Gaming
2021-02-26 10:00 - 11:00

Sallie Mae Webinar: Navigating Financial Aid Offers
2021-02-25 19:00 - 20:00
After being accepted to college, you’ll receive a financial aid offer that outlines your financial aid eligibility at that specific school. Each financial aid offer will contain similar information overall, but since there’s no standard format they can be difficult to interpret. In this session you’ll learn how to decipher each financial aid offer so you can confidently determine which college is the best fit.
