Last spring Texas A&M University was invited to become one of four partner institutions to employ recent graduates as College Advisers for the Advise TX College Advising Corps. The Advise TX College Advising Corps seeks to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented Texas high school students entering and completing post-secondary education. Through funding from the College Access Challenge Grant and other private sources, Texas A&M University has been afforded the opportunity to employ 32 former students to serve in high schools in Austin, Beaumont, Dallas, Houston, the Rio Grande Valley, and San Antonio. The presentation seeks to share with Houston Former Students the great work being done by the A&M College Advisers in an effort to connect the Advisers to their local Aggie Clubs and potentially forge lasting relationships between the Former Students in Houston and the local Advise TX chapter.

BIO

Erika Delgado Scott serves as Program Manager for the Texas A&M University chapter of Advise TX, where she supervises a module of 16 advisers. She has pursued a career in higher education administration and educational access for the past eight years. Her passions have led her to California; Arkansas; Washington, D.C.; Ohio; and Texas. Most recently she worked as a College Counselor for the YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, where she served low-income disadvantaged students with the college application, matriculation, and transition process. Mrs. Scott earned a Bachelor’s degree from Texas Christian University in Spanish and Business, a Master’s from the University of Arkansas in Higher Education Leadership, and began her Ph.D. in Leadership Studies at the University of San Diego.