What is College: Make It Happen?
College: Make it Happen is a multimedia road-map through the college journey for middle-school students and the adults who guide them. With the CMIH suite of interactive curricula, technology, and resources, students, educators, and parents can delve into college-readiness like never before.
Is College: Make It Happen for me?
College: Make It Happen users are middle-school students, their families, and the educational communities who support them.
For Students
College: Make It Happen content inspires students to connect their passions and talents to a college-going culture.
For Families
College: Make It Happen materials demystify the college application process and highlight resources and opportunities made available by California programs and services.
For Educators
Features of the CMIH Program
For Students - The Virtual Workbook/Booklet
Engaging original characters introduce students to the many possibilities and opportunities they may choose to explore.
Writing prompts, brainstorming exercises, and more activities inspire students to connect their passions and ambitions with the college-going process.
For Students - iOS Augmented-Reality App
Compatible with most iPhones and iPads, users download the College: Make It Happen app to interact with college-going content even further.
For Students - Android Augmented-Reality App
Compatible with most Android devices, users download the College: Make It Happen app to interact with college-going content even further.
For Educators - The Educators’ Training, Workshops, & Curriculum
For Educators - The School & Classroom Kits
Bring the college-going culture to your school with motivational CMIH events and College Prep Rallies.
In your classroom:
CMIH users can represent their communities’ college-going commitment with CMIH posters, banners, apparel, and accessories.
Created by the ICC
In 1994, the California Education Round Table Intersegmental Coordinating Committee (ICC) created a comprehensive set of resources for middle school students, their families, and educators to demystify the college process. The campaign has paid particular attention to the specific need for first generation college-going students and their families to know more about the academic requirements and financial resources that will prepare them to enter and succeed in the college of their choice. The focus on middle schools was deliberate and intentional: college preparation in general needs to begin no later than middle school—a perspective that is especially true in California if students are to meet the rigorous college admissions requirements in this state.
Looking forward to the future
The centerpiece of this suite of resources and strategies has been a consumable workbook, called College: Making it Happen, that has engaged and empowered both the middle school community in the state and the higher educational college preparation programs to collaborate for the last 25 years. Because the need for middle school resources persists to this day, we have revitalized the College: Make it Happen (CMIH) materials to reach and engage an audience of 21st-century students and the educators who guide them.
Sponsored and supported by the California GEAR UP Program in conjunction with the California Education Round Table Intersegmental Coordinating Committee
