The Month of May - Time to Celebrate!

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Our staff interviews have been very popular! This month we are featuring an interview with Tawnie D'Angleo, GEAR UP First Year College Advisor at Western Nevada College! You can read it here!

NDE Fall Training

August 12 & 13

Save-the-Date! We are kicking off Year 7 in our usual way - by meeting in Reno for NDE training. The location is TBD.

National GEAR UP Week

September 22-26

This year, National GEAR UP Week will be held the week of September 22nd. This is a great time to plan extra special events. This year, the theme from the annual conference will be carried through GEAR UP week as well. The theme is: Planting Seeds, Growing a Nation.

NSHE Year 7 RFPs and IPs

May 30th/June 6th

If you are an NSHE subawardee, RFPs with your budget and all required attachments (with signatures) are due into Arlene (aherrera@nshe.nevada.edu) and Janet (jstake@nshe.nevada.edu) by the end of the day on Friday, May 30th. In addition, the IPs are due June 6th for review. We will be holding a Year 7 IP session on June 5th to assist in completing our IPs. It will be helpful for FYCAs to pull the number of their incoming freshmen for the fall.

NCCEP National Conference

July 13-16

NCCEP's annual conference, will be held in San Francisco beginning July 13th-16th! The conference theme this year is, Planting Seeds. NCCEP always puts on a great conference with inspiring keynote speakers and an amazing array of break out sessions. There is something for everyone! Registration is OPEN! Visit: https://www.edpartnerships.org/annual.

Social Media

(For all students, parents, staff and supporters)

If you have any suggestions for our social media, let Jana or Janet know! We are open to new ideas to help grow our following! Don't forget to like and follow @gearupnv on any or all of our social media platforms! You can use the icons above to access the GEAR UP accounts. We would love for you to tag us and interact whenever possible!

Summer Bridge Program at UNLV

We are excited to welcome over 60 GEAR UP rising seniors to Summer Bridge with UNLV GEAR UP ASPIRE this June! Students from all Southern Nevada GEAR UP high schools will meet at UNLV for two days of college and career activities and social connection. Participants will also hear from representatives from the U.S. military, Nevada State University, the College of Southern Nevada, Great Basin College, and the University of Nevada, Reno. From past summers, we know that these connections will boost students' readiness for their postsecondary plans!

And the Winner is.....

We've been talking about it for a few months now. The inaugural Nevada FAFSA Challenge was launched this year and we have our first winning high school! Of course it is a GEAR UP high school! Mineral County High School had the greatest improvement in their FAFSA completion rate for all eligible schools. MCHS improved their completion rate by 53%!! Congratulations to MCHS students and staff as well as everyone that helped make it happen. Special shout out to FYCA Kelly Briggs who helped host a FAFSA night in early December which was hugely successful and most likely contributed to this win. MCHS will be recognized at a future NSHE Board of Regents meeting where they will be presented with a personalized banner they can display for the next school year, and they will receive the $1,000 prize money! Way to go Serpents!

Congratulations Ana!

We are delighted to congratulate our Communications Specialist/Student Worker, Ana Hernandez-Wong, who recently graduated from UNR with her bachelor's degree. Ana double majored in International Affairs and Political Science. She hopes to one day, go to law school. Unfortunately, along with this great news, we also have to say good-bye to Ana. She has accepted a position with a law firm in the Reno area. She said she appreciated the opportunity to work for GEAR UP and that her experience will help her in her new role as she will be handling the social media for the firm. She will continue to advocate for our GEAR UP program!

Wishing you the best of luck as you start you new position, Ana! We will miss you!

NACADA Regional Conference

In April, NSHE GEAR UP staff Jana Burd and Kinsey Minter attended the NACADA Region 5 conference in Chicago, IL. Using the theme, “Building Skyscrapers: The Architecture of Advising”, this conference welcomed student affairs professionals from around and outside of the midwest to learn more about academic advising in a variety of ways. From leadership development and student support, to cross-departmental collaboration and self-care, a wide range of topics were covered throughout the three-day conference. Attendees learned from the presenters and each other about how they can improve as both professionals and people. The NACADA Annual conference will be held in Las Vegas, NV on October 26-29, 2025. We are looking forward to learning and growing more to better serve our students, ourselves, and each other!

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