What Is PFCS?
Nationally:
"The Planning for College Success program (PFCS) illustrates what it means and what it takes to go to college by connecting NSCS members and middle school students from their local community.
Surveys have found that more than 90 percent of secondary school students aspire to go to college, yet do not prepare for college academically or financially early enough to be successful.
Participating in a mentoring relationship with middle school students, NSCS members play an important role, helping students plan for their post-secondary education and see the link between their studies and their future. This is accomplished through school assemblies, mentoring and March to College Day." -From the national website at www.nscs.org
The University of Arizona Chapter:
PFCS is a year long project that each strives to promote awareness about college to middle and high school students, and help them start on a path now that will lead them to college. We are dedicated to providing outreach to our community youth in preparing for higher education through tutoring and personal mentoring.
Events
We are currently establishing contact with Tucson community schools in order to create a local network for ideas and future activities. Some of our new initiatives this year are:
- tutoring with community schools
- visiting and mentoring middle school and high school students
- organizing assemblies with visiting speakers
- Shadow Day- an event in which a middle school student accompanies a college students on their typical school day
We really appreciate new ideas from surrounding schools. Please feel free to provide feedback. Contact information is listed below, please feel free to e-mail us.
Contact
Our PFCS chair person for 2007-2008 is Andrea Woodard. For more information about PFCS, or if you would like to get your school involved or have any suggestion for activities, please contact Andrea at woodard@email.arizona.edu.
School Representatives
Mansfeld Middle School- Andrea Woodard woodard@email.arizona.edu
Amy Odgers ajodgers@email.arizona.edu
If you would like to be involved, please contact our chair person, Andrea, and you will be assigned a personal representative to provide you with all the information you need to get started.
More Information
View the official National Society of Collegiate Scholars PFCS website at http://nscs.org/programs/pfcs.cfm.
This website is update periodically throughout the year as we get more infomation and plan more events. Please come back again soon!
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