GEAR UP Alumni Spotlight: Brenda Palacios Rodriguez
Jun 30, 2025
Brenda Palacios Rodriguez never envisioned herself attending college.
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Interactive McDowell Technical Community College Visit Welcomes GEAR UP Students to Campus
Jun 26, 2025
What do you get when you cross a slushie machine, Play-Doh, and a gourmet homemade lunch? You get a 6th grade McDowell Technical Community College visit, of course!
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CAP Through our Eyes: Wes Calbreath
Jun 23, 2025
In this series, we feature individual CAP staff members and dive into their unique perspectives on college access, educatio
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Hosting a College Access Event During COVID
Sep 22, 2020
The 2020 Senior Night at Avery County High School, planned and hosted by ACAC adviser Kallie Kressly, was a huge success!
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Headin’ Down South
Sep 3, 2020
As I drove south from my hometown of Whipple, Ohio to the far western reaches of North Carolina, I noticed a lot of changes.
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Fast Times at 'Rona High
Aug 24, 2020
Appalachian College Advising Corps advisers began their college access work this month in high schools across western North Carolina.
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Expand Yosef: Exploring the 2019 College Advising Corps Summit Through the Eyes of an Appalachian Adviser
Feb 21, 2020
The news that the annual CAC Summit Conference would be held in Boston, Massachusetts in early December drew excitement from me the moment I heard it.
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Life as an Adviser: Lila Battles Inequity in Education in a Rural Appalachian Community
Feb 14, 2020
The best day of my elementary school career was when I won a raffle and my prize was not candy, not ice cream, but getting to intern in the main office for the day.
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Life as an Adviser: Zack Writes about Empowering Students Outside the Classroom
Feb 7, 2020
Truth be told- I lucked into this position. Once I completed my undergraduate degree at Appalachian State, I was at a loss.
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Life as an Adviser: Yesenia Martinez-Salazar Writes About Settling in to a New Environment
Jan 31, 2020
I was raised in Raleigh, NC. I mentioned Raleigh because I believe where I was raised has played a role in my experience in working in rural Appalachia.
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Life as an Adviser: Miles Poteat's First Generation Connection
Jan 23, 2020
These past few months working as a member of the Appalachian College Advising Corps have been almost… nostalgic for me, though in a very unique way.
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Life as an Adviser: Cierra Smith talks about working in Rural Appalachia
Jan 15, 2020
Oxford Dictionary defines rural as “In, relating to, or characteristic of the countryside rather than the town.” The Census Bureau defines rural as "any population,
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Upward Bound Alumni Spotlight: Gilberto Ramirez
Oct 26, 2017
Math has always been a piece of cake for Gilberto Ramirez, a freshman at Appalachian State University studying actuarial science.
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