Dear ACCIS Members,
It is hard to believe that it has only been five short months since we gathered in Baltimore. Much has occurred in each of our offices and schools since that time. The same is certainly true for ACCIS. The Board of Directors and Executive Committee recently completed two days of meetings in Dallas on the beautiful campus of Southern Methodist University thanks to the gracious hospitality of Ron Moss and his staff.
Dear ACCIS colleagues and potential members,
You are heartily invited and encouraged to attend the Third Annual ACCIS Summer Institute, held this year at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, GA from June 20 to June 23. The ACCIS Summer Institute is a special opportunity to learn, share, grow, and reflect on the issues that affect our increasingly demanding and important role in independent schools.
The ACCIS Board of Directors met for the first time in a morning meeting on November 6, 2008 at the College Board National Forum in Houston, Texas. In attendance were Hector Martinez, Marcia Hunt, Rhody Davis, and Marty Elkins. Carl Ahlgren and Bruce Hunter were unable to attend.
On the morning of Thursday, September 25th, more than 100 college counselors from independent schools across the nation gathered for the first Annual Meeting of the Association of College Counselors in Independent Schools. This meeting was another essential step in moving ACCIS from a good idea to a full-fledged national organization.
Dear Members of ACCIS,
I write to share exciting news! Thanks to the efforts this summer of two loyal members of the Executive Committee, Eric Monheim of Sidwell Friends School and Betsy Dolan of Phillips Exeter Academy, who sought nominations and managed the entire process for electing the school representatives for our ACCIS inaugural Board of Directors, we have the results!
On the Education Week website you can read the Op Ed piece by Marty Elkins entitled "When Rankings Go Wrong".
Rankings of colleges and schools do more harm than good for students and parents trying to make sound decisions. ACCIS tried to stop an effort to rank schools in the summer of 2007.
