Carolina College Advising Corps

Mission

The Carolina College Advising Corps helps low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students find their way to college. By placing recent UNC-Chapel Hill graduates as advisers in high schools across North Carolina, the Corps helps students plan their college searches, complete admissions and financial-aid applications, and enroll at schools that will serve them well.

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Interested in applying to be an adviser?

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. 

Contact Information
For more information about the Carolina Advising Corps, please contact Jennie Cox Bell, Program Coordinator, 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. 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.

For the 2009-2010 academic year, 19 advisors will serve 40 high schools in 21 counties across the state of North Carolina and advise more than 7,000 graduating seniors.

Now entering its third year, advisers work closely with guidance counselors and other school personnel to create programs that meet the needs of the students in North Carolina high schools. Typically, an adviser works in two high schools, helping students research and apply to a broad range of two- and four-year schools, with the goal of finding the one that fits each individual best.

Golden Leaf Foundation renews grant supporting Carolina College Advising Corps