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Personal Reflection slide

My Personal Refection slide

Who Can Help with planning? CPN College Planning Network (2009)

College Planning Network slide 1

Facts on US workers slide 2

Employers concerns slide 3

Government Resources American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

ARRA slide 1

ARRA aim slide 2

ARRA outreach slide 3

ARRA funding slide 4

Where to Look Lynn O’Shaughnesssy

51 Colleges With the Best Financial Aide slide 1

Research scholarships slide 2

It Will Take Time to Fill out Scholarships slide 3

Three Ways to Find Great Schools slide 4

Check out Tuition Reimbursement slide 5

Personal Reflection slide

Student Personal Reflection slide

Works cited slide

Works cited slide

College planning can be tough these days for beginning students, returning students and students just looking for ways to cut costs and stretch their budgets. To avoid bias advertisements students should choose nonprofit organizations to help. Most of these will end with (gov.), (educ.) or (org.). The College Planning Network (CPN) is one such program that can enlighten students from the first steps of planning to the last.

financial advice options exists

for all students

More than ¾ are high school graduates

Almost 40% have at least one year college

A greater % of young people in the U.S. go to college than in any other nation

but they generally mean a good work ethic

and social skills.

Funds Drive School Reform and

Improvement

improving teacher quality and turning around under-

performing schools

Secretary Duncan urges states to submit their ARRA applications!

latest approved are:

Florida, Georgia, Ind

iana, Nevada, New

York, and Rhode

Island

Shave thousands off tuition

with grants scholarships and

employer, tuition

reimbursement

THERE WERE

PLENTY!

Recalls Woman, now 25

1. Ignore the sticker

price

2. Get the best

package

3. Go global

With a little help from the right sources you can be well on your way to a rewarding career. America is well ahead of the competition-know the statistics. There are programs that can help you find the valuable information you are looking for. Get the facts-stay away from biased advertisements that lead you astray.

Government nonprofit programs and organizations will steer you in the right

direction.

CitationsO’Shaughnessy, Lynn. (2010). 51 Colleges With the Best Student Financial

Aid. CBS Money Watch.com.

http://moneywatch.bnet.com/saving-money/blog/college-solution/51-colleges-

with-the-best-student-financial-aid/1354/

Back to School. College Planning Network. Copyright 2009.

http://www.collegeplan.org/bcksch/bkschool.htm

Programs and services to help you start, grow and succeed. SBA Economic

Recovery. 2009.

http://www.sba.gov/recovery/index.html

In this Power Point my main goal was to answer the question of, “What kind of presentation would help my students succeed after high school?” Too many times I’ve seen students simply give up because things weren’t as easy as they anticipated. The slides I have chosen will assist students of all income brackets in finding funds to help with their college tuition. The slides are meant to be informative as well as fun. In most of the slides students can also click on the pictures to further their search. Finally, I purposely stressed, “Don’t give up. Find the help you need. Investigate government and non profit websites.” They are usually less biased concerning colleges of choice.

I would have to say my three “Wow” points in creating this Power Point were pretty exciting. First, coming up with the idea; not just another lesson for my young people, but something they could really take with them to really make a difference. Second, I learned a lot myself. You know, not quite knowing were to go or what to do and finding out how to on the web was scary and fun; I have to admit, God gave me wisdom when I thought I had none. I hope my students have as much fun as I did learning, searching and finding out their futures. Last but not least the feeling of actually accomplishing something not just for me to say, “Yes I learned a couple of things,” but finding several websites I really believe can make the difference in a graduate’s life. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did making it!