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ACT workshop on Saturday, Feb. 2 to improve college funding, access

To help stu­dents achieve higher ACT scores, the I CAN Cen­ter of Excel­lence, a regional non-profit col­lege access orga­ni­za­tion, is con­duct­ing a six-hour work­shop on Sat­ur­day, Feb­ru­ary 2, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., (one hour for lunch) on the cam­pus of The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity at Mar­ion and Mar­ion Tech­ni­cal Col­lege, 1465 Mount Ver­non Avenue, Mar­ion, in Mor­rill Hall, Room 160.

The work­shop will help high school sopho­mores and juniors suc­ceed as they pre­pare to take the ACT exam to enter col­lege. Tech­ni­cal col­lege stu­dents enter­ing a pro­fes­sional pro­gram such as nurs­ing are ranked in order of accep­tance based on ACT scores and will also ben­e­fit from this work­shop. As stu­dents achieve higher ACT scores, they can expect to receive higher finan­cial aid pack­ages from col­leges where they apply and also improve their oppor­tu­ni­ties for being accepted by their first-choice colleges.

Total cost to attend the six-hour work­shop is $75 in advance or $85 at the door.

Instruct­ing the ACT pro­grams for the I CAN Cen­ter of Excel­lence is Michael Short. Short is a Mas­ter Tutor in a num­ber of sub­jects includ­ing the ACT and SAT. He scores in the 99th per­centile on these tests. He is cur­rently employed at the Uni­ver­sity of Louisville as a col­lege coach for a new col­lege access pro­gram, GO Col­lege — Louisville. He has worked in higher edu­ca­tion since grad­u­at­ing from Camp­bellsville Uni­ver­sity in 1980. Short was employed by The Ohio State Uni­ver­sity at Mar­ion between 2001 and 2011. Dur­ing his tenure at Ohio State Mar­ion, he was instru­men­tal in expand­ing Marion’s local col­lege access net­work I CAN Go to Col­lege into the cur­rent regional col­lege access pro­gram the I CAN Cen­ter of Excellence.

Appli­ca­tions for the work­shop are avail­able through high school guid­ance coun­selors or online at < http://icancenter.org/act_prep.html >. Those who have yet to reg­is­ter should send the reg­is­tra­tion fee along with their name, address, phone num­ber and e-mail address to: The I CAN Cen­ter of Excel­lence, 1465 Mount Ver­non Avenue, Mar­ion, OH 43302, or call 740–725-6174 for more information.

The I CAN Cen­ter of Excel­lence is a regional col­lege access net­work that serves, Craw­ford, Delaware, Hardin, Mar­ion, Mor­row, Union and Wyan­dot Counties.

Gary Henery Posted by on Jan 23 2013. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

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