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8:30 am – 9:00 am
9:00 am – 10:00 am
With Doug Lederman, Scott leads the editorial operations of Inside Higher Ed, overseeing news content, opinion pieces, career advice, blogs and other features. Scott is a leading voice on higher education issues, quoted regularly in publications nationwide, and publishing articles on colleges in publications such as The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, Salon, and elsewhere. He has been a judge or screener for the National Magazine Awards, the Online Journalism Awards, the Folio Editorial Excellence Awards, and the Education Writers Association Awards. Scott served as a mentor in the community college fellowship program of the Hechinger Institute on Education and the Media, of Teachers College, Columbia University. He is a member of the board of the Education Writers Association. From 1999-2003, Scott was editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
10:10 am – 11:00 am
University of Alabama
Amherst College
Boston College
Spring Hill College
Samford University
Troy University
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Auburn University
Birmingham-Southern College
Loyola University New Orleans
Lafayette College
Southern Methodist University
University of Montevallo
University of South Alabama
11:00 am – 11:15 am
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Hear from college admissions officers on the procedures used in their offices to read the files submitted by applicants.
Working with colleges, students and parents.
12:00 pm – 12:30 pm
12:35 pm – 1:20 pm
What admissions officers want you to know about how these are used.
Hear from college admissions officers on the procedures used in their offices to read the files submitted by applicants.
How to use the SCOIR platform.
1:25 pm – 2:10 pm
What admissions officers want you to know about how these are used.
Where are we and does anybody know where we are going?
How to use the SCOIR platform.
2:15 pm – 2:35 pm
Eric Hoover has closely observed the work of school counselors and college counselors in a variety of settings for two decades. In this closing session, he will describe why their work greatly matters to society in an age of uncertainty, sharing insights that he has gathered from counselors all over the world.
Mr. Hoover has written extensively about college access, admissions, standardized testing, and student diversity for the last 20 years. His journalism has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, and Nautilus. Eric has won numerous journalism awards, including the Education Writers Association’s Eddie Prize, which recognizes distinguished reporting on the challenges facing low-income and first-generation students, and the Eugene S. Pulliam National Journalism Writing Award, for feature writing. A 1997 graduate of the University of Virginia, he lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, the journalist Emily Heil.
2:35 pm – 2:45 pm
