Partner

BECOME A PARTNER COLLEGE

College Horizons invites colleges and universities to participate in our college admissions and graduate admissions workshops, or attend just the College Fair or University Fair of the summer workshops. Offices of admission, financial aid, student services, career services, Native American programs/study, and fellowship programs are also welcome. Workshop space is limited to 50 partner schools. New for 2012, if the workshops become full, we offer colleges the opportunity to participate for just 1 day in our College Fair.

College Horizons offers two programs, College Horizons (for high school students) and Graduate Horizons (website comeing soon!)

College Partnership Opportunities include:

College Horizons Workshop (for high school student recruitment),
Attending the College Fair Only
Graduate Horizons Workshop (for graduate school recruitment),
Attending the Graduate University Fair Only
Host a Workshop – Bring 100 Native students to your campus for a week!

Admissions Outreach:

College Horizons is designed to align with the multicultural-diversity outreach initiatives of college/university Offices of Admissions. We understand that Indian Country is vast - comprised of 310 geographical reservations and 40 Indian Statistical Areas (29 located in Oklahoma), 200 Alaska Native villages, over 563 federally recognized and over 200 state recognized tribal nations, and islands of Native Hawaiian homelands. We also know that Native American and Native Hawaiian students continue to be the most underrepresented minority population on college campuses.

Eligibility to Partner:

Financial Aid Policy for Partner Schools. In order to partner with College Horizons, a college/university must agree to meet the full demonstrated financial need of a College Horizons student admitted to the college. Gapped funding which includes unsubsidized or parent loans is not considered to meet the full demonstrated need. Please consult your Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid to determine whether your institution can meet our financial aid policy. Note: The Financial Aid Policy is for the College Horizons high school program only, not Graduate Horizons partners.

Workshop Registration Fee & Services:

If your institution is interested in participating in College Horizons (to recruit high school students for college) or Graduate Horizons (to recruit college students/graduates to graduate School), please contact our Carmen Lopez, Executive Director, for more information on the benefits/outcomes, services, contracts, curriculum, and fees – carmen.lopez@collegehorizons.org.

In general, services include: contact information of all student participants (including CEEB code for high school program), networking with 30 high school counselors and American Indian educators (for CH program only); promotion of partner college for 1 year through CH recruitment activities, advertisements, conferences, email/list-serve, 1 year promotion of college on website featuring college profile and 3 url links 5-6 days of meals/lodging/ground transportation (for CH only); college fair, college/university informational sessions, brochures placed in all student materials, networking opportunity for admissions officers to meet the 30 volunteer high school counselors and Native educators at each program.

Become a Host:

College Horizons seeks colleges/universities to host the week-long workshop. To be eligible to host requires that a college/university has previously participated in a College Horizons program.

High School College Fair Only:

Colleges not participating in the CH Summer Workshops are welcome to attend the College Horizons College Fairs at the host location – for 2012, Kenyon College (Gambier, OH) and the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA). Schools will have the opportunity to meet with the 100 college-bound Native high school students of the CH program (students are selected by competitive admission, have a minimum 3.00GPA in core academic subjects, and submit a counselor and teacher recommendation). Space is limited and registration to attend the college fair is due by April 16, 2012.

Graduate University Fair Only:

Graduate institutions not participating in the GH Summer Workshop are welcome to attend the Graduate Horizons University Fairs at the host location – for 2012, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). Schools will have the opportunity to meet with the 75-100 college students and college graduates of the GH program. Space is limited and registration to attend the university fair is due by April 16, 2012.