by Melissa Zenz | Jun 25, 2024 | News
This post is the eighth in our series about myFutureNC’s Bite-Sized Webinars. Previous posts covered Family-Sustaining Wages, Labor Market Alignment, FAFSA and Financial Aid, NC Pre-K, Opportunities for Growth, Opportunity Youth, and Career and College Promise...
by Melissa Zenz | Apr 19, 2024 | News
We think and talk about FAFSA a lot at the Land of Sky P20 Council. Our fixation on FAFSA stems from our goal to increase postsecondary enrollment success (i.e., college enrollment and persistence) in our four counties (Buncombe, Henderson, Madison, and Transylvania)....
by Melissa Zenz | Mar 6, 2024 | News
As part of our work to improve educational attainment and workforce outcomes, all of our region’s counties have the same FAFSA completion goal, which we adopted from our statewide partner, myFutureNC: By 2030, the goal is that 80% of North Carolina high school...
by Melissa Zenz | Mar 5, 2024 | News
As part of our efforts toward achieving our Workforce strategic goal, our Executive Director, Emily Nicholson, is serving on the planning committee for the WNC Career Expo. The event will include a special field trip opportunity for our region’s high school...
by Melissa Zenz | Feb 11, 2024 | News
For National School Counseling Week 2024 (February 5-9, 2024), we are taking the opportunity to celebrate our region’s school counselors and to dig into the data on how our districts are doing in attaining the recommended ratios of students to school counselors....
