MOCAN – Missouri College & Career Attainment Network

Advising Students on Non-Degree Career Programs with STEMSTL
2022-02-25 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | Missouri
PDI Workshop for College and Career Advisors
Most jobs today require education and training beyond high school but not all require a degree. In this workshop, we’ll explore postsecondary programs that lead to a quality certificate, and training programs that prepare students for specific careers. We’ll also share scholarship resources for students attending technical and trade schools. This workshop is co-presented with our partners at STEMSTL.
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Advising Students on Non-Degree Career Programs with STEMSTL

Advising LGBTQIA+ Students
2022-02-11 10:00 - 11:30
PDI Workshop for College and Career Advisors
How can counselors connect with and engage LGBTQIA+ students in developing a postsecondary plan that meets their needs? In this interactive workshop, dynamic presenter Jeff Perkins will share strategies and resources to help you best support your students.
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Advising LGBTQIA+ Students

Advising Students Interested in Attending HBCUs and HSIs
2022-02-04 10:00 - 11:30
PDI Workshop for College and Career Advisors
This workshop will focus on how to best advise students interested in attending Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), including tips on ensuring a good fit and how to find scholarship resources.
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Advising Students Interested in Attending HBCUs and HSIs

Higher Education Roundtable: How Postsecondary Equity Network Colleges are Supporting Low-Income and Black Students
2022-01-28 10:00 - 11:30
PDI Workshop for College and Career Advisors
For students from low-income communities and Black students, finding the right college goes beyond academic and financial fit; culture, community and support are critical factors. In this roundtable discussion, TRIO and student success leaders from multiple Missouri and Illinois colleges in the Postsecondary Equity Network will share what they are doing to create an inclusive, supportive campus community so you can best advise your students.
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Higher Education Roundtable – How Postsecondary Equity Network Colleges are Supporting Low-Income and Black Students

Test Optional, Dual Credit and Early Admissions: Implications for Student Planning
2022-01-21 10:00 - 11:30
PDI Workshop for College and Career Advisors
In the era of test-optional admissions, should students still take the ACT or SAT?
Which students benefit most from early decision or early action? What role does dual credit play in admissions? In this workshop we’ll talk about course selection, testing and other decisions that may impact college admissions.
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Test Optional, Dual Credit and Early Admissions: Implications for Student Planning

Webinar: Serving Undocumented Students in the College-Going Process
2021-12-14 12:00 - 13:30
Upcoming Industry Professionals Webinar:
This program is designed for school counselors and college access partners and will run 1 ½ hours long to accommodate audience questions.
Webinar: Serving Undocumented Students in the College-Going Process
Date and Time: Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 1 -2:30 p.m. EST. (Noon -1:30pm CST)
Register Today on the Florida College Access Network website

National College Attainment Network Virtual Conference
2021-10-05 10:00 - 2021-10-07 17:00
The National College Attainment Network (NCAN), is holding a virtual conference, October 5-7 10am to 5pm daily. Please register on the NCAN site to join.

Return Strong Virtual Job Fair -6-22-21
2021-06-22 10:00 - 14:00
The Missouri Office of Workforce Development is hosting a series of Return Strong Virtual Job Fairs.
The Return Strong Virtual Job Fairs are part of the state’s efforts to help Missourians skill up and get back to work following the economic downturn caused by layoffs from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Job seekers statewide will be able to search job listings, meet with hiring companies, receive tips for resume writing and job interviews, and learn more about Missouri Job Center services and training opportunities.

Sallie Mae Webinar: How to Pay the Balance-6-17-21
2021-06-17 13:00 - 14:00

Sallie Mae Webinar: How to Pay the Balance-6-16-2021
2021-06-16 19:00 - 20:00

Missouri Association for College Admission Counseling (MOACAC) Virtual Inclusion Conference
2021-06-12 10:00 - 2021-06-13 13:00

Sallie Mae Webinar: Everything You Need to Know About Scholarships
2021-06-10 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-06-09 18:00 - 19:00

Return Strong Virtual Job Fair - 6-8-2021
2021-06-08 10:00 - 14:00

National College Attainment Network Virtual Conference
2021-06-08 00:00

National College Attainment Network Virtual Spring Institute: Striving for Equity
2021-06-02
The virtual event is being held as a three-part series on April 21, May 12, and June 2. This year, we focus on building personal and organizational capacity in the areas of diversity and inclusion to impact equity in the postsecondary attainment field. Each 90-minute session will encourage attendees to reflect on their own organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) journey and implement valuable practices to advance antiracist efforts internally and externally in their student-facing services.
Spring Institute is ideal for professionals from all walks of life working in the postsecondary attainment space- whether be it the nonprofit sector, high school and district setting, institution of higher ed, or any other line of direct service that provides students with opportunities and pathways toward a postsecondary plan.

NCAN Webinar: Building Institutional Support for Undocumented Students in Higher Education
2021-05-26 13:00 - 14:00
Expand your Educator/UndocuAlly toolkit so you can address the institutional challenges current and prospective undocumented students face when accessing higher education. This workshop will provide you with promising practices, helpful resources, and an invaluable framework that can build your capacity to create effective solutions.
Whether you work within higher education or partner with colleges and universities, this workshop is for you.

Show-Me Hope Missouri Webinar: Mental Health and Student Success
2021-05-26 10:00 - 11:00
Today’s college students are trying to balance academics, independent living, and a healthy lifestyle. Students need to prioritize good mental health while in college. This can be challenging while also becoming a successful student.
The American College Health Association informs colleges that mental health needs are almost directly related to measures of academic success. Students who reported psychological distress also reported receiving lower grades on exams or important projects; receiving lower grades in courses; receiving an “incomplete” or dropping courses altogether; or experiencing a significant disruption in thesis, dissertation, research, or practicum work.
Learn what challenges Missouri college students face and what can help them practice mental wellness, and what resources are available.

Sallie Mae Webinar: Understanding the Cost of Student Loan Borrowing
2021-05-20 13:00 - 14:00, 2021-05-19 19:00 - 20:00

NCAN Webinar: Building an Ecosystems Approach to College Attainment & Sustaining the Model During Challenging Times
2021-05-19 13:00 - 14:00
Is your agency looking to expand beyond college access and cultivate meaningful community engagement? Are you wondering how to build a comprehensive system of support locally?
Join us to learn about building community ecosystems that foster a college-going culture at both the local and statewide levels. Iowa College Aid staff will share how they crafted their evolving community engagement model. Presenters will share tools for sustaining the critical partnerships that undergird this model.
As we all envision life beyond COVID-19, this session will highlight innovations in community engagement born out of COVID-19 that will be carried into the future.

Sallie Mae Webinar: Admissions Tips
2021-05-13 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-05-12 18:00 - 19:00

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.
