Higher Education As A Mindset

The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis has been instrumental in forming a regional collaboration, St. Louis Regional College Access Pipeline Project, to look at how we are preparing young people for higher education. On October 7, the organization will join with other area organizations to host "Beyond High School: Building Better Futures."
It starts with creating a mindset that "College is a Goal," but that is only a start towards the preparation necessary to not only be academically prepared, but navigate the process, afford the education and have the persistence to graduate.
It's great to be a board member for an organization that is looking at not only the scholarship and loan process but all the pieces that surround it to help ensure that we will have the most successful students in the next generation.
As the world continues to shift, we need to keep looking for ways to help our students adapt, and adapt ourselves to the monumental shifts in the world. Creating a young adult with the resourcefulness to find the answers, the foundation to ask the right questions and an ability to determine what is going on in any situation he/she is placed will be the measure of our collective success!