Advisory Panel on Student Concerns
To guidance and academic secondary school delegates
Since 1978, students have served as members of the national advisory structure of the College Board. Throughout this time, they have demonstrated the importance of student perspective to staff and the many other councils and committees on which they serve. The main vehicle to provide their perspective is the Advisory Panel on Student Concerns (APSC).
The 16-member panel, made up of high school and college students from a variety of backgrounds, meets three times a year. In addition, after their first year students may serve on another College Board Committee or Council, ensuring that students' voices are present in all the College Board's deliberations. Most meetings will be held in New York City, and all travel and lodging expenses will be paid by the College Board. Continued membership is contingent on active participation.
This summer, recommendations will be made to the College Board's president to fill vacancies resulting from students who are rotating off the College Board's Advisory Panel on Student Concerns. As a member institution, the College Board invites you to nominate one student from your institution to serve on the panel. We need your help in identifying students from which the next set of appointments will be made.
There are five vacancies on the Panel this year. We are looking for students from the Midwestern, New England, and Southern regions who will be high school juniors in the academic year 2008-09.
I personally would urge you to nominate a student for this committee. Since I joined the College Board as senior vice president, I have made a special effort to involve students in advising us in making College Board-wide decisions. I have found students extremely helpful and am seeking new students to join this committee.
The Panel has been very specific in the type of students that they seek as peers. They feel (and we agree) that the association would benefit most from a diverse panel. Therefore, they ask that you not consider only your most academically gifted students, but rather suggest a student who would bring a unique and interesting perspective to the panel.
Potential Panel Members are:
- willing and able to travel independently several times a year without negative impact on their school schedules;
- thoughtful, articulate, and capable of absorbing new and often complex information quickly;
- interested in education, student or community affairs; and
- outgoing, self-confident, and comfortable with and respectful of peers from different backgrounds.
To submit a nomination, print out the nomination form nomination form (.pdf/67K) Requires Adobe Reader (latest version recommended), complete the top portion, ask the student you are nominating to fill in the remaining information, and return the form before June 20, 2008 to:
Ivette Castro
Advisory Panel on Student Concerns
45 Columbus Avenue, ABS-8
New York, NY 10023
Or fax it to (212) 713-8063.
We will acknowledge receipt of the nomination to you and the nominee via email. Decisions will be made over the summer. The new panel will have an orientation at their first meeting, which is part of the College Board National Forum (held this year in Houston, November 5-8, 2008). All nominated students and their sponsors will be notified of the results by July 25, 2008.
If you have any questions, please email Ivette Castro of the College Board at icastro@collegeboard.org or phone (212) 713-8192. Thank you for your assistance in this search for outstanding representation from the student community.
Sincerely,
Peter J. Negroni