by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association We are pleased to announce the addition of one of Canada’s leading experts on emotional intelligence and high performance to the roster of outstanding speakers. Dr. J.P. Pawliw-Fry will address the conference as Wednesday’s keynote speaker. He replaces Peter Jensen who needed to cancel due to … Read more »
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association While all legislative eyes are focused on a vote on major Health Care legislation (addressed in a previous blog), there is speculation that the final reconciliation bill will have a major reform to the college loan industry attached. If this legislative path is followed—and all expectation … Read more »
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consutltants Association In today’s mail I received several professional journals. Glancing through for worthwhile articles I saw a feature story entitled “Tantalizing Toronto: Ontario’s Magnetic Metro Welcomes Groups with Open Arms and Cutting-Edge Venues.” With our conference scheduled to open in less than eight weeks, it seemed perfect … Read more »
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association One of the unexpected consequences of holding our first-ever meeting outside of the United States has been the musings of some about whether “consultants are really going to Canada” for the conference, or, in the minds of IECA members, whether schools, colleges, and program representatives are … Read more »
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0 comment by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, IECA An article in the Stanford Daily has gotten a lot of attention over the weekend. It raised a question about the authenticity of student applications to the prestigious school, after an advertisement appeared in the campus newspaper for an “admission boot camp” run by an unaffiliated educational consultant whose ethics … Read more »
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| college consulting,Consulting Business,ethics,Finding the Right Fit | 3 comments by Sarah Brachman, Manager of Communications, IECA We congratulate AdmissionsQuest on their 500th onBoarding Schools blog post! For their 500th post, IECA Executive Director Mark Sklarow wrote his reflections of onBoarding Schools‘ contributions to families and the boarding school communities. share:Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postRecommend on FacebookShare on Linkedinshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itSubscribe to the … Read more »
by Mark Sklarow, Executive Director, Independent Educational Consultants Association Sixteen years ago, my first day with IECA was at the start of the spring conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. I believe there were fewer than 250 attendees, including some 80 IECA members. There was no NATSAP back then, Small Boarding School Conferences were intimate events, … Read more »
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| college consulting,educational consultants,IECA Toronto Conference,LDA Conference,NATSAP,school consulting,special needs consulting,Therapeutic Consulting | 3 comments A new national survey released yesterday by the non-profit research organization Public Agenda, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, paints a depressing picture of college advising. In their survey of young adults who graduated from college, the researchers explored how helpful the respondents’ school-based counselor was in meeting their college search, application, and financial aid advisory needs. The respondents found little to cheer.