How some college counselors are fighting back against pandemic-induced enrollment decline [calmatters.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 6/17/212:17 PM

By Charlotte West and Angel Fabre, Cal Matters, June 16, 2021

In early June, 19-year-old Brian Cruz was on a break from his warehouse job at Amazon, listening to music. He scrolled through the messages on his phone and saw an email from the college and career center at his old high school in Hemet, a high desert town in Southern California.

Even though Cruz graduated from Tahquitz High School last year, the email invited him to make an appointment with a school counselor. Last spring, Cruz decided to put off college and work while he waited out the pandemic.

But a year of packing boxes at Amazon and a lifetime of seeing family members work manual labor made him anxious to go back to school as soon as possible. “I was happy to get that email, because I really didn’t know what to do,” he said.

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