Michelle Obama By Beyoncé Knowles-Carter
In 2014 Michelle Obama launched the Reach Higher initiative, which set out to help schools and counselors help young people see college as an option. But after about a year into the program, the former first lady realized Reach Higher wasn’t directly reaching an important group: students themselves.“Mrs. Obama said the White House…
Michelle Obama To Help Get Students Ready For First Year Of College In YouTube Series
Marching bands, a deejay and a slew of celebs joined Michelle Obama at College Signing Day, an annual event the former First Lady launched while in the White House to celebrate young people and their pursuit of higher education.
Upwards of 8,000 Philadelphia students, educators, parents, elected officials, corporate and community supporters took part …
Reach Higher Initiative Celebrates 5 Years, College Signing Day
Marching bands, a deejay and a slew of celebs joined Michelle Obama at College Signing Day, an annual event the former First Lady launched while in the White House to celebrate young people and their pursuit of higher education.
Upwards of 8,000 Philadelphia students, educators, parents, elected officials, corporate and community supporters took part …
College Signing Day
Championed by former First Lady Michelle Obama and hosted by schools, organizations, community leaders and influencers, College Signing Day is a chance to rally around students who have committed to higher education. Every student who commits to going to and completing college deserves to be celebrated just like a celebrity or star…
School Counselor of the Year
Since 2015, Reach Higher and Mrs. Obama have celebrated the School Counselor of the Year ceremony with the American School Counselor Association. This year, Kirsten Perry, a school counselor at Lawndale Community Academy in Chicago, Illinois, was honored as the 2018 School Counselor of the Year. The ceremony also recognized the…
Beating the Odds
This past June, we celebrated our fifth Beating the Odds with 35 first-generation, college-bound freshmen at Twitter’s DC Headquarters. The students started their day by hearing from current first-generation college students. Afterwards, they heard some powerful words of advice from Mrs. Obama…
Michelle Obama surprises 2018 School Counselor of the Year. Watch the video.
Kirsten Perry, newly named 2018 School Counselor of the Year, was sitting in a school office with some students at Lawndale Community Academy in Chicago, waiting for what she thought would be a phone call from the executive director of the American School Counselor Association. When the phone rang and Perry answered, someone else was on the line…
Michelle Obama Celebrates College-Bound Students In Star-Studded College Signing Day 2018
Marching bands, a deejay and a slew of celebs joined Michelle Obama at College Signing Day, an annual event the former First Lady launched while in the White House to celebrate young people and their pursuit of higher education.
Upwards of 8,000 Philadelphia students, educators, parents, elected officials, corporate and community supporters took part …
Michelle Obama tells first-generation college-bound students, “Don’t do it alone”
Former First Lady Michelle Obama recounted her undergraduate experience at Princeton University to a crowd of students Thursday, calling it an “out of body” experience. “I wouldn’t have put myself in the category of Ivy League Schools. I didn’t even know what an Ivy League school was, so stepping on campus for the first months or so, it was odd,” Obama said…
Michelle Obama´s Better Make Room Campaign Aims to Help Students Text Their Way to College
In 2014 Michelle Obama launched the Reach Higher initiative, which set out to help schools and counselors help young people see college as an option. But after about a year into the program, the former first lady realized Reach Higher wasn’t directly reaching an important group: students themselves.“Mrs. Obama said the White House…
