NCHELP Spring Convention Increasing College Access Online

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NCHELP Spring ConventionIncreasing College
Access Online

• Xap Corporation
• June 6, 2006

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Xap Corporation
First
Statewide Mentor Applications
Most
Electronic Applications
Only
Complete Digital Package
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Are You Trying to..

• Meet Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 mandates for
  College Access Initiative?
• Reach target students and schools? (including
  low-income and first-generation students)
• Provide one-stop information?
• (college planning, career planning, and
  paying for college)

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Xaps Products and Services

• Innovatively increase access to college
• Provide comprehensive advising tools
• Affordably save institutions time and money
• Empower students with online tools that better
  help to plan, prepare, apply and pay for college

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Why a Web Portal?

• Good Information Good Decisions
• Levels the Playing Field
• Comprehensive Plan, Apply, Pay
• Up-to-Date / Real Time
• Accessible
• Interactive
• Personalized
• Versatile
• Supports and Enables Student Transitions
  
• (Joe Watts, CFNC.org)

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Portal Functions
( Tafel, 2002)
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States Using Xaps Mentor Solution
NH
VT
ME
MN
MA
NY
RI
CT
NJ
OH
DE
IN
IL
WV
MD
VA
KS
KY
CA
NC
TN
AR
HI
AL
MS
FL
Electronic Campus Mentor States
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North Carolina
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Georgia
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Kentucky
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Colorado
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Benefits HS Counselors

• Online College Access
• Online Counseling Tool
• Review Students Profile and Application
• Online Coaching for Test Preparation
• Ease Secure Sending of Transcript

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Benefits Students

• Better Prepared Students
• Comprehensive Student Profile
• High School Planner
• Counselor/Parent Help
• Test Preparation
• Support Line
• Best College Decision
• Career Planning Test Preparation
• Search Select a College
• Communication with Institution
• Ease of Use
• Pre-Populate the Application FAFSA
• Explore, Plan Pay for College

I'm helping my daughter apply to some Cal State
schools -- Long Beach and San Diego so far.
Maybe a few more, as well as schools in Arizona
and Oregon. Man, that's an exhausting process.
But I have to say, the Cal State application
system rocks. We're working through a web site
called CSU Mentor, which makes it remarkably easy
to apply to any or all of the CSU schools.
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Benefits Institutions

• More Efficient Process
• Email Communication
• Outreach Tools
• Workflow Processes
• Export to SIS and CRM
• Print Capabilities
• Ad Hoc Reporting
• Complete Digital Package
• Application Supplements
• Letters of Recommendation
• Combined with Transcript Payments Waivers (if
  applicable)
• Cost Resource Savings

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Keys to Success

• Collaboration with Other Agencies
• Coordinate with Other Programs
• Branding and Marketing
• Establish Common Goals and Milestones
• Dedicated Project Manager
• Decision Processes
• Maintaining Project Scope and Schedule
• Training Train the Trainer
• Partnership with Xap

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NCHELP Spring ConventionIncreasing College
Access Online

• Xap Corporation
• June 6, 2006