College Visions

GivingTuesday: #MyGivingStory Contest

College Visions alumni, Emmanuel “Manny” Ventura has a story to share!

For this upcoming Giving Tuesday, he decided to support CV first-generation students by sharing his story in hopes that you’ll join him!

How you ask? Vote for his #MyGivingStory ONCE PER DAY!
The 20 stories to garner the most votes by December 10th will be sent to a panel of judges and have a chance to win up to $10,000!

To hear Manny’s story and vote, please visit: https://binkd.co/zVhR1

AND on the actual day of GivingTuesday, December 3rd, we will be raising money to support the Emergency Grant Fund!

Your support is powerful. Your support provides access. Your support builds a community. #MyGivingStory #GivingTuesday19 #MarkYourCalendars

Volunteer at College Visions’ Application Party!

It’s college application season, and that means that College Visions students need your help! CV 12th graders are working hard on their college applications. Now that application deadlines are right around the corner, we will open the CV office to host weekend Application Parties starting this month and in December!

Volunteers will help our 12th graders put the finishing touches on their college applications. As a volunteer, you will work closely with students, editing their college essays, polishing their resumes, and reviewing their applications.

DATES:
November 23rd: 11-3pm
November 24th: 11-3pm
December 14th: 11-3pm
December 15th: 11-3pm

Location: College Visions Office: 131 Washington Street, Suite 205, Providence, RI 02903

Sign up here: bit.ly/cvparty19

Questions? Please contact Monephia at volunteers@collegevisions.org

Volunteer at College Visions’ Interview Prep Day!

Join us for our annual Interview Prep Day!
It’s a time to help high school seniors prepare for their college interviews by serving as a mock interviewer and providing them with constructive feedback. It’s a great way to work directly with students and support them on their path to college.

Date: Saturday, October 19, 2019
Time: 11am-1pm
Location: CIC Providence- District Hall
225 Dyer Street
Providence, RI 02903

Sign up: bit.ly/cvipd19

Questions? Please contact Monephia at monephia@collegevisions.org

Advising Undocumented Students in Rhode Island for College Access

Our mission at College Visions is to empower low-income and first-generation college-bound students to realize the promise of higher education by providing advising and resources to promote college enrollment, persistence, and graduation. College Visions advances equal access to educational opportunities in historically under-served communities.

At College Visions, we believe our work is an embodiment of our core values:
– Empathetic, compassionate, and transformative relationships drive strong organizations.
– Equity creates strong communities.
– In our community we honor the voice, agency, and identities of all.
– Success means reaching our goals through hard work, failure and growth.

We live and operate through these values daily within our two core programs, the College Access Program (CAP) and the Kolajo Paul Afolabi College Success Program (CSP).

The College Access Program provides the intensive, individualized advising that closes the gap between college aspirations and college enrollment for first-generation, low-income students. Students are provided with one-on-one admissions advising, college knowledge workshops, campus visits, family engagement opportunities, access to technology, financial aid coaching.

The College Success Program provides our college students and graduates of CAP with continued support through college. Students are provided with one-on-one coaching, college success workshops, connection with on-campus resources, transfer coaching, financial aid renewal assistance, and access to our emergency grant fund.

Both of our programs are free to our students and are supplemented with providing social-emotional support for our students. At College Visions, we understand that the journey to and through college can be met with many different challenges, as well as the great successes, especially for first-generation low-income students. We are proud to be a resource for our students, help them navigate through different challenges, and celebrate their accomplishments.

Tina Meetran
College Access Program Director
College Visions

CLICK HERE to download the guide: Advising Undocumented Students in Rhode Island for College Access, 2019-2020

The New College Visions Summer Program!

College Visions, in collaborations with the Providence Public schools, offered a four-week summer program for high school students that introduced them to the college admissions process, potential career options, and building academic and interpersonal skills while preventing summer slide!

We received over 200 applications from young people willing to commit to 80 hours of summer programming, but only had space for 100 students. Students came to us from high schools throughout Providence including 360, Alvarez, Central, Classical, E-Cubed, Evolutions, Hope, Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex, Mount Pleasant, and Providence Career & Technical Academy.

Students had a lot to say about the program:

“The best thing about the program was being able to get life advice from people who have already gone through it and lived it.”

“The most important thing that I learned is what it’s like to be in college. In the program, they taught us what’s required to get into college and they motivated us to go and achieve our goals.”

“The most important thing that I have learned was my resume. I felt as though I learned a lot I will be able to use that resume for a job that I would like to apply for.”

Providence has so many talented, energetic young people. It was our privilege to work with them to plan their path through high school to college and career!

Student Letter to CV Staff: