Lessons From Higher Ed: The Role of Character in College Admission

Join us for a conversation with Trisha Ross Anderson and Brennan Barnard. Trisha is the College Admissions Program Director for Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Trisha has spent over a decade supporting a wide variety of schools and non-profits. Her work centers around social and emotional learning and character development, the promotion of positive school climate, and intervention development and evaluation. Brennan is the co-author of the new book, The Truth about College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together and the director of college counseling and outreach at The Derryfield School in New Hampshire. He is also the College Admission Program Advisor at Making Caring Common. Brennan writes about college admission for the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes.com, HuffPost, Concord Monitor and Journal of College Admission.