NSU delegation invited to White House

(Tahlequah, Okla.)--A team of five school counseling professionals, including three Northeastern State University representatives, traveled to San Diego State University November 17-18 to represent the state of Oklahoma at an invitation-only convening on improving college counseling among school counselors. The group joined a total of 32 state teams who wrote plans to increase equity and access for post-high school graduation planning for ALL students.

Reach-Higher, an initiative of First Lady Michelle Obama, calls for regaining the United States No. 1 standing in terms of the number of college graduates by the year 2020. She has targeted the training and expertise of school counselors to assist in reaching this goal. This convening followed a meeting held at Harvard University this summer. According to Oklahoma team, the convening in San Diego was refreshing in the sense of urgency and spirit of collaboration to improve the training of school counselors in this important work.