National College Advising Corps Wins 2012 National Service Impact Award

Fort Worth, TX July 2, 2012

This summer, the Corporation for National and Community Service awarded the
National College Advising Corps (NCAC) the 2012 National Service Impact
Award. TCU is one of 16 universities that constitutes the NCAC.

 

The TCU College of Education, through the TCU Center for Urban Education,
launched its program last year with 16 full-time college advisers at 16
North Texas high schools. This year the program will expand to 24 advisers at 24
high schools. All advisers are recent TCU graduates who will
serve approximately 45,000 Texas high school students this school
year. Advisers work at partner high schools to increase the
number of low-income, first-generation college and underrepresented
students who enter and complete higher education.

The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that
engages more than five million Americans in service through its
SeniorCorps, AmeriCorps, the Social Innovation Fund, and other programs,
and leads President Obama's national call to service initiative,
UnitedWeServe.