Carolina Advising Corps

Mission

The Carolina Advising Corps aims to help low-income, first-generation, and under-represented students from North Carolina attend college by placing recent UNC-Chapel Hill graduates as college advisers in selected public high schools throughout the state. Advisers will assist students with admission, financial aid, and scholarship applications.

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Applicants must be recent graduates of UNC-Chapel Hill or graduate students. College advisers will serve for a term of one academic year, with the option of renewing for a second year. Advisers will also participate in a six-week training session during the summer before employment begins.

We are now accepting applications for the 2009-2010 Corps. Please apply through University Career Services or contact the Interim Program Coordinator at the email address below.

Contact Information
For more information about the Carolina Advising Corps, please contact Jennie Cox Bell at (919) 843-7286 or jcoxbell@admissions.unc.edu.

History of the Program

Launched in 2007 and funded by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the Annie Penn Community Trust and the Golden LEAF Foundation, the Carolina Corps is one of 13 constituent programs in the National College Advising Corps which is headquartered at UNC-Chapel Hill. The corps aims to increase the number of low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education. According to the College Board, high-achieving students from low-income families have about the same chance of enrolling in college as low-achieving students from high-income families.

In just its second year, the Corps will partner with 38 North Carolina high schools and their more than 7,000 graduating seniors—almost five times the number served during the program’s first year. For the 2008-2009 academic year, sixteen recent UNC-Chapel Hill graduates will join three returning advisers in order to serve 38 North Carolina high schools—up from eight high schools during the first year.

Press Release Announcing Expansion of Carolina Advising Corps