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As a new member of the Carolina College Advising Corps, UNC graduate Donovan Livingston will work at James B. Dudley and Benjamin L. Smith high schools in Guilford County this school year to help low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students apply for college and financial aid.

As a new member of the Carolina College Advising Corps, UNC graduate Donovan Livingston will work at James B. Dudley and Benjamin L. Smith high schools in Guilford County this school year to help low-income, first-generation and underrepresented students apply for college and financial aid.

The Carolina Advising Corps, based in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is one of 13 partnerships in the National College Advising Corps (also headquartered at UNC). The corps places recent Chapel Hill graduates – many of them first-generation college students themselves – as college advisers in low-income high schools across the state.

Advisers work closely with guidance counselors and other school personnel to create programs that meet the needs of the students in North Carolina high schools. Typically, an adviser works in two high schools, helping students research and apply to a broad range of two- and four-year schools, with the goal of finding the one that fits each individual best.

Livingston, originally from Fayetteville and a 2005 graduate of Jack Britt High School, said he looks forward to experiencing the life and culture of another North Carolina city. Overall he said he is optimistic about the future of the program.

During his time at UNC, Livingston worked with several student-led, diversity-based initiatives at Carolina. He said he believed his involvement with the corps would serve as a continuation of the work he had done as an undergraduate student through the Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs – work that focused on college access for young people from all walks of life.

“I think the most appealing aspect of CCAC is the feeling we, as advisers, will get when we see our students open their acceptance letters, scholarship and financial aid awards and see them realize for the first time that they are officially college-bound and well on their way to becoming better-equipped members of society – armed with an education and ready to take on the world,” Livingston said.

More than 75 applicants, mostly graduates of UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, competed for the eight adviser positions open for the fall, said Program Director Jennifer Cox Bell.

The advising corps, now entering its third year, has 19 advisers serving 40 high schools in 21 counties across North Carolina.

Donovan Livingston

Carolina College Advising Corps Web site: http://advisingcorps.org/page/carolina-advising-corps

Carolina College Advising Corps contact: Jennifer Cox Bell, (919) 843-7286, jcoxbell@admissions.unc.edu

News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, susan_houston@unc.edu

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