WACAC Member Spotlight: Adolfo Mercado

WACAC Member Spotlight: Adolfo Mercado

Q & A with Adolfo Mercado with Neelam Savla interviewing on behalf of WACAC Over the next few months, we hope you have the opportunity to meet the dedicated professionals who make up WACAC through out WACAC Member Spotlight Series....
Presidential Pontifications: It’s Still Rock ‘n Roll to Me

Presidential Pontifications: It’s Still Rock ‘n Roll to Me

By Ed Devine Are we “Turning the Tide?”  Creating lockers full of hope and fairness?  Testing for something new?  Or just putting lipstick on a pig? Many enmeshed in the world of college admissions are rightly exclaiming “Our poor junior...
DEA Inclusion: In Praise of Data

DEA Inclusion: In Praise of Data

By Tony Losongco   The summer before starting grad school for college counseling, I got a student job with the university’s institutional research office. I call it the best three-month campus orientation I could have received. It wasn’t because of...
DEA Inclusion: In Praise of Data

DEA Inclusion

By Jamilla Jamison A few weeks ago, my colleague Yamilet Medina López posted a blog about the much-discussed Fisher v. University of Texas – Austin Supreme Court case. In an effort to keep the WACAC and higher education community informed...
Government Relations Alert: Perkins Loan Update

Government Relations Alert: Perkins Loan Update

By Kris Zavoli Although some US Senators are still pushing for stand-alone renewal, as of now, the Perkins Loan program is winding down with the possibility of being included in a comprehensive Higher Education Act reauthorization.  Here is a small...