National CCAA Counselor Corner (CCC):
The Latest National CCAA News For You
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We hope this edition of the CCAA Counselor Corner (CCC) finds you healthy and well. The official start of spring is only a few days away and we're ready for the flowers to bloom and the sun to shine and bring warmer temperatures along with it.
With only about six weeks until the May 1 enrollment deadline, we know your days are busy. To help, we've filled this newsletter issue with resources and information to help you as you walk your senior students and their families through the final few weeks of their college search. Keep reading to find a recording of our February Virtual Counselor Town Hall, helpful tips to share with students who are still making their final college decision, and for details and a link to the 2023 National CCAA First-Year Scholarship application, which we hope you'll encourage all of your seniors to apply for.
Whether you're counting down the days until spring break, summer vacation, or just the weekend, know that we're rooting for you. We hope you can take some time this weekend to celebrate your hard work this school year and to cheer on some of our National CCAA member schools as they play in the March Madness basketball tournament!
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Happy Spring Break From Our Member Campuses
Whether they spent spring break exploring their college's hometown, traveling to another country, or lending a hand with a service project, students at our National CCAA member colleges and universities took full advantage of all their schools had to offer! Students at our member schools find spring break the perfect time to answer the call to serve, expand their horizons, and of course, have a little bit (or a lot!) of fun. Here's a look at some of the spring break opportunities that make student life on our National CCAA member campuses special.
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Recap: February Virtual Counselor Town Hall
Thank you to all who joined last month's virtual counselor town hall session on Friday, February 24. Our February counselor town hall session featured admission leaders from multiple National CCAA member institutions and members of the National CCAA Board of Directors on Zoom as they addressed timely topics of interest to counselors.
If you were unable to join us last month and are interested in viewing the recording, you can access it here. The passcode you'll need to access the recording is TiyP3#BB
Our next virtual counselor town hall session will take place on Friday, April 21 from 3:00-4:00 pm ET. Stay tuned for more details and sign-up information.
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2023 National CCAA
First-Year Scholarship
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The National CCAA First-Year Scholarship is a one-time, $1,000 award that is given to 16 randomly selected seniors from various geographic regions who will attend one of our National CCAA member colleges or universities in Fall 2023.
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This year's application is available here and the deadline to apply is Saturday, April 1, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. PST.
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2023 NCAA March Madness - Good Luck to Our CCAA Member Schools!
Join us in wishing good luck to all of our National CCAA member colleges and universities that qualified for this year's NCAA Men's and Women's March Madness tournaments! We'll be cheering for them as they begin the first and second rounds of tournament play this week and weekend.
CCAA Members in the Men's Tournament
- Creighton University (Omaha, NE)
- Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)
- Iona University (New Rochelle, NY)
- Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)
- Providence College (Providence, RI)
- Saint Mary's College of California (Moraga, CA)
- Xavier University (Cincinnati, OH)
CCAA Members in the Women's Tournament
- College of the Holy Cross (Worcester, MA)
- Creighton University (Omaha, NE)
- Gonzaga University (Spokane, WA)
- Iona University (New Rochelle, NY)
- Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)
- Sacred Heart University (Fairfield, CT)
- Saint Louis University (St. Louis, MO)
- St. John's University (Queens, NY)
- University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, IN)
- University of Portland (Portland, OR)
- Villanova University (Villanova, PA)
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For Fall 2022, we introduced the new National CCAA Transfer Scholarship. This award is offered annually to current students attending a two-year college or university who will have completed 30 or more credit hours by the end of the spring semester and will be attending one of our National CCAA member institutions as a transfer student. Award recipients were selected by random drawing and for transfer students entering Fall 2022, we awarded four (4) one-time $1,000 scholarships.
We are pleased to share that for Fall 2023, we have doubled the number of National CCAA Transfer Scholarships and will now be awarding eight (8) one-time $1,000 scholarships!
The Fall 2023 National CCAA Transfer Scholarship application will be available on our website later this spring, so please stay tuned for more details and reminders.
If there are any topics you'd like to see covered in an upcoming Transfer Corner section of our e-newsletter, please email the Transfer Taskforce.
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If you have any questions or would like to add a counselor colleague to our email list, please contact us at info@nationalccaa.org.
Additional helpful links are available on our website, which is a great resource for counselors, students, and parents:
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May 1 will be here before you know it and we know your days are full of meetings with students still struggling to make their final decision on where to enroll in the fall.
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