Advise TX at TCU holds special event at Polytechnic High School

TCU's Timeka Gordon naming Polytechnic High School student Jose Camarillo a TCU Ambassador. Photo left to right: Timeka Gordon, Super Frog, Jose Camarillo, and Polytechnic High School Principal Daniel Scroggins.

Fort Worth, TX

11/21/2011

Polytechnic High School hosted a college and career fair on Friday, November 18, with representatives from regional universities and local businesses. In addition to the fair, representatives from TCU took the opportunity to honor two homebound Polytechnic students who are battling cancer. Both students are Horned Frog fans, and came back to the Polytechnic campus for a brief reception Friday morning. TCU representatives gave the students t-shirts, mugs, posters, folders, bags, blankets, and other items. One student, Jose Camarillo, was named an official TCU Ambassador.

Geovanny Bonillia, TCU’s Advise TX college adviser at Polytechnic, and Timeka Gordon, Assistant Director Inclusiveness & Intercultural Services, presented the items to the students. TCU employees donated the items from Student Affairs, Admissions, Athletics, and the College of Education.

Polytechnic is one of 16 partner high schools served by the TCU Advise TX College Advising Corps. Advise TX aims to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education. By placing recent TCU graduates as college advisers in North and East Texas high schools, advisers work full-time with high school students and assist them with planning their college searches, completing college admissions and financial-aid applications, and enrolling at their best fit school.

Advise TX at TCU is in its first year with the National College Advising Corps (NCAC). NCAC is housed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has 18 university partners including Brown University, New York University, the University of California at Berkley, and the University of Virginia. TCU joins other Texas chapters: Texas A&M University, Trinity University, and the University of Texas at Austin who now serve 120 high schools in Texas. Each chapter recruits, hires, and trains its own graduates to serve as college access advisers at selected partner high schools.

Visit www.AdviseTX.org to learn more about this new TCU program.