Sean David Callaway
New York,NY
Summary
Sean Callaway has served as Director of College Placement at the Center for Urban Education at Pace University since 1996 and is now semi-retired. At the Center for Urban Education at Pace University, he established the college guidance program featuring multi-year individual admissions strategies for high school students in the Center’s federal and state grant-based programs. Callaway counsels juniors and seniors, with a creative non-fiction focus on college essays and thoughtful drafting of college applications and college lists.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of College Placement
Pace University
06.2017 - Current
- To Present New York, Taught multiple classes in grades 9-12 in the Pace Upward Bound Saturday Academy as well as several classes in the Summer Academy (grades 11-12) including Social Darwinism and French West African Colonialism, Introduction to Enrollment Management, Critical Thinking, and College Research Using IPEDS Data
- Responsible for individual counseling of each cohort of Upward Bound Seniors, and financial analysis of their financial aid packages
- Taught The Business of College Admissions in the Liberty Partnerships Program at the High School for Economics and Finance and provided college guidance to LPP students enrolled in the high school.
Director of College Counseling
Pace University
06.2012 - 10.2017
- Placement to June 2017 New York, Directed counseling in Pace Upward Bound
- Taught multiple classes in grades 9-12 in the Pace Upward Bound Saturday Academy and several classes in the Summer Academy (grades 11-12) Responsible for individual counseling of each cohort of Upward Bound Seniors
- Created an analysis template for financial aid resulting in approximately 1500 financial aid packages analyzed by EFC, GPA, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, SAT/ACT
- Wrote the final 2011-2012 Liberty Partnerships Report submitted to New York State Department of Education
- Edited the winning $1.75 million 2012-2017 Liberty Partnerships Grant
- Ran the Liberty offices and counseled Liberty students in three high schools on a weekly basis
- Represented Pace at the bi-annual state-wide Liberty Partnerships meeting
- Represented Pace at the monthly Metropolitan New York Liberty Partnership meetings
- Part of the team that hired a new Liberty Partnerships Program Director and four Site Coordinators
- Reorganized the Pace Liberty Partnerships Program with the new Liberty Partnerships Program Director and helped train four new Site Coordinators
- Taught The Business of College Admissions at the High School for Economics and Finance
- Gave workshops about college admissions in each of the four LPP target high schools., Placement and Internships
- One of the writers of the winning 1.6 million Upward Bound Grant proposals (2007, 2012) for the Center for Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE)
- Responsibility for CURE relationships with post-secondary institutions, college admissions officers, national admissions associations and access networks
- Designed the college counseling and financial aid program designated by Pathways to College Network as one of the 61 national models of “A Shared Agenda”, the three-year study on improving access to college for underserved students
- Cited for providing advice, editorial support, and technical guidance in the 2007 Pew Foundation sponsored Consumer’s Union white paper on financial aid called “Helping Families Finance College: Improved Student Loan Disclosures and Counseling
- Trained and supervised more than 50 college counselors serving in public high schools, and in the Center’s programs under the auspices of both the Pace Lower East Side/Chinatown College Counseling Project and the Pace Community and Volunteer Mobilization Project
- Established a program in the High School for Economics and Finance for Psy.D
- Candidates in school psychology to run transition to college groups with licensed supervision
- Supervised the internship program for alumni and seniors of the Pace Upward Bound and Liberty Partnerships Programs
- Designed and taught a three-year curriculum in grammar and composition for Upward Bound students
- Continued “The Business of College Admissions” and the college guidance program for grades 10 through 12.
College Counselor
Center for Urban Education
03.2002 - 10.2012
- College Placement
- Responsible for establishing relationships between CUE programs, enrichment programs and post-secondary institutions
- Responsibilities include maintaining relationships with college admissions officers nation-wide, with high school and CBO administrators, with appropriate university officials, and with local, state, and national admissions associations and access networks
- Expert in financial aid
- Directed college guidance for the high school students of Pace Upward Bound (UB) and Pace Liberty Partnerships Partnership Programs (LPP)
- Created a high school based college prep program for LPP which was cited in a 2000 Ford Foundation sponsored study conducted by USC’s Rossier School of Education for its success rate in getting students into college
- Started the "College Summer" for LPP students, placing them in summer enrichment programs on college campuses
- Started “A Day with Upward Bound” for educators and admissions personnel to spend a day in the Upward Bound Summer Program
- Started a complete year-round senior transition-to-college seminar
- Continued teaching “The Business of College Admissions
- Directed the Pace/Lower East Side/Chinatown AmeriCorps Learn and Serve Project at IS 131, building a team of college counselors and high school students who designed a curriculum to teach leadership skills to middle school students, the first service learning project of the Pace University School of Education
- Established the Pace/Lower East Side/Chinatown AmeriCorps College Counseling Project, training college advisors for CUE programs.
Education
Financial Aid Certification 2021 (MVP Award) - Financial Aid
NYS Financial Aid Administrators Association
Manhattan, NY05-2021
Bachelor of Arts - Visual Arts
SUNY Empire State College
Saratoga Springs, NY05-1976
Timeline
Director of College Placement
Pace University
06.2017 - Current
Director of College Counseling
Pace University
06.2012 - 10.2017
College Counselor
Center for Urban Education
03.2002 - 10.2012
Financial Aid Certification 2021 (MVP Award) - Financial Aid
NYS Financial Aid Administrators Association
Bachelor of Arts - Visual Arts
SUNY Empire State College
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