Achievement – To successfully accomplish a goal or task.
Award – A prize or other mark of recognition given in honor of an achievement.
Career – Connected employment opportunities to provide experience and learning to fuel your future.
Career and Technical Education (CTE) – A term applied to schools, institutions, and educational programs that specialize in the skilled trades, applied sciences, modern technologies, and career preparation.
Community – A feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.
Compassion – Being thoughtful and decent.
Cultural – The characteristics and knowledge of a particular group of people, encompassing language, religion, cuisine, social habits, music and arts.
Disadvantaged Student – Students who have hindrances to excelling in school because of detrimental circumstances beyond their control. These include financial and social hardships as well as problems within students’ families.
Empathy – The ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
First Generation Student – Being the first person in your immediate family to attend college. In other words, neither of your parents have a college degree.
Graduate – A person who has successfully completed a course of study or training, especially a person who has been awarded an academic degree.
Grants – Non-repayable funds or products disbursed or given by one party, often a government department, corporation, foundation or trust, to a recipient, often a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual.
Holistic – The ability to encompass the whole of a thing, not just part.
Honesty – The ability to be trustworthy, loyal, fair and sincere.
Internship – The position of a student or trainee who works in an organization, sometimes without pay, in order to gain work experience or satisfy requirements for a qualification.
Job – Something you do simply to earn money, has minimal impact on your future work life.
Job Shadowing – An educational program where college students or other adults can learn about a particular occupation or profession to see if it might be suitable for them.
Leader – A person who leads or commands a group, organization, or country.
Leadership – The art of motivating to achieve a common goal.
Mentorship – The guidance provided by a mentor, especially an experienced person in a company or educational institution.
Minority Students – Those who do not belong to a region’s or nation’s majority racial or ethnic group—may be subject to discrimination, whether sanctioned or passive, that can affect their educational achievement.
Opportunity – Circumstances that makes it possible to do something.
Pathway – A way of achieving a specified result; a course of action.
Respect – Having or displaying admiration, high opinion, esteem, value, reverence and regard.
Responsibility – Being accountable for something within one’s power, control, or management.
Scholar – A specialist in a particular branch of study highly educated or has an aptitude for study.
Scholarship – Students are eligible to apply to A grant or payment made to support a student’s education, awarded based on academic or other achievement.
Scholarship Award – An award of financial aid for a student to further their education. Scholarships are awarded based upon various criteria, which usually reflect the values and purposes of the donor or founder of the award. Not required to be repaid by the student.
Service – Doing something for someone else without expecting any reward or gain.
Success – The accomplishment of an aim or purpose.
Underrepresented Populations – Students with disabilities, first-generation, low-income, and U.S. ethnic minority students, and academically at-risk students.
Underprivileged – Deprived through social or economic condition of some of the fundamental rights of all members of a civilized society.
Value – A person’s principles or standards of behavior; one’s judgment of what is important in life.
Volunteer – A person who freely offers to take part in an enterprise or undertake a task.