Happy 2023, MPSEOC Members! 

This is a reminder to all MPSEOC Members that the MPSEOC Board, Montana Tribal College Team, Committees, & Montana Virtual Task Force meet many times throughout the year. 

• All meetings are posted online @ Board of Directors - MPSEOC | Membership
• Members are always invited to attend any open meetings.  Please contact guide@montanacolleges.com or the Executive Director to learn more.
• Member Feedback  |  Your feedback is so vital to our organization!  Share your thoughts with us @ Contact Us - MPSEOC | Membership or contact us directly @ Amy.Leary@MontanaColleges.com or 406.531.3531.  Thank you!

Thank your for all your great teamwork to help our Montana students and education together!  

During this time, counselors, students, parents, and members have asked for a place to host continue resources and updates from the campuses and other partners and agencies. 

• To perview these on-going updates and resources, visit our main website @
• http://montanacolleges.com/resources
  

Please email us any addtional resources you would like to share to:  amy.leary@montanacolleges.com.  Thank you for your team efforts during this unique time!

COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Updates

• Thank You For Your Team Efforts |  We realize that you, your office, entire campus, and community are working hard to keep everyone safe in this transitional time.  We too are placing safety at the forefront.  We are all learning together in this, and we wanted you to know that MPSEOC is here to help in any way we can to help lighten this impact.  Please share any ideas on how you would like MPSEOC to help and/or aid in this time.  We appreciate your team efforts to stay connected and share resources with our members, as we help each other through this time.  Please know we are here. 

• Share Resources  |  If you would like to share any resources with our members, please email us this information (to:  amy.leary@montanacolleges.com), and we will post it on our MPSEOC.org Membership site under the resources & announcements sections.  Thank you for helping keep everyone working together!  #StrongerTogether

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• Share Your Ideas & Help Keep Us All Stay Connected  |  How can MPSEOC help you through this time?  How can we help to keep everyone connected and sharing resources in this time?  

Thank you for all your team efforts & stay healthy from the MPSEOC Team  

2020 Board of Director Meetings 

• An Extra Special Thank You To Our Board of Directors  |  The MPSEOC Board has been working hard and been keeping close touch through all this.  We will be meeting frequently in the next few months to keep on top of the short and long-term impacts of COVID-19.  Please know we are here to help in any way we can and would appreciate any ideas you have on how our organization can keep connected and serving you during this time.  

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• Scheduled Meetings  |   
  • March 13, 2020  |  Emergency MPSEOC Board Meeting – in response to COVID-19
  • March 19, 2020  |  MPSEOC Executive Team & Policy Meeting
  • April 21, 2020 @ 4pm   |  MPSEOC Board of Directors Meeting
  • May 12, 2020 @ 4pm  |  MPSEOC Board of Directors Meeting
  • May 27 - 28, 2020  |  MPSEOC Board of Directors Meeting
  • August 3 - 4, 2020  |  MPSEOC Conference, Board Meeting, & Membership Meeting
  • Fall / Winter 2020 |  MPSEOC Board of Directors Meeting
  • Other Meetings as needed TBA  |  Please contact us for more details for each meeting if you would like to attend any meetings.  Thank you for your team efforts!

• You are always invited & welcome to attend.  Please let us know if you would like to join us.


• Please share any feedback you have about MPSEOC services, so that we can discuss actionable steps to address it!   About MPSEOC Services  

2019 NACAC State of College Admission Report
Read the Report

Every year, NACAC publishes the State of College Admission report. As a counselor on the high school side of the process, I always find helpful nuggets including data that backs up the claim that colleges accept two-thirds of first time freshman applicants (beginning on page 6).

The top factors considered by admission offices is a chart I always share with students (beginning on page 14). Information about recruitment and yield strategies (beginning on page 10) should be especially interesting to our members on the college side.

There is so much interesting information. I hope you take some time to peruse this report.

 Sincerely,
Claire Nold-Glaser
PNACAC President

Following the votes at last month’s national conference to remove three provisions from NACAC’s Code of Ethics and Professional Practices (CEPP) and to institute a moratorium on enforcement of the entire document, members have asked for advice about what counselors can tell students and families moving forward. How will these changes affect students in the college admission process? What do students and their families need to know? And what can counselors tell them?

To help you respond, we asked NACAC colleagues on the Admission Practices Committee, Aaron Salasek and Stacey Cunitz, for their advice for counselors. Additionally, we are sharing an edited version of a letter prepared by NACAC member Rafael Figueroa, dean of college guidance at Albuquerque Academy (NM), for the parents of his students. Both documents, along with an updated version of the CEPP, are linked below.

We hope these resources can help guide your conversations this fall with the understanding that it will still be some time until NACAC has complete details to share with you, our members. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation has not yet been resolved. We don’t know when the DOJ will make its decision, what it will entail, if a consent decree will be imposed, or what the association will need to do in order to comply.

In the interim, we hope these resources can be of assistance. Please feel free to share these with colleagues as well as with the students and families you serve:

• Updated Code of Ethics and Professional Practices
• Message to Counselors from NACAC’s Admission Practices Committee
• Sample Letter from a School Counselor to Parents

 
Thank you for your attention to this important issue. I am confident that despite the CEPP changes our association can and will remain a champion for the ethical practice of college admission. If you have further questions or for more information, please contact NACAC's governance team.
Sincerely yours,

Jayne Caflin Fonash
NACAC President