2014 Michigan Counselor Report Released

The Joyce Ivy Foundation recently released the 2014 Michigan High School Counselor Report, Searching for Progress: The State of Michigan College Counseling Six Years Later. The report is based on a survey issued to over 1,800 Michigan high school counselors. It's clear that counselors continue to face untenable workloads, juggling extraneous duties that routinely pull them away from counseling students, and lack the resources and support to participate in professional development opportunities that will keep them up to date with the latest knowledge. Read the full press release.

The 2014 Report builds on the Foundation's original 2008 Michigan High School Counselor Report, The Eleven-Month Challenge: 22 Recommendations for Improving the Transition from High School to College.

The Foundation also conducted a survey and report of Ohio counselors in 2009, Converting High School Achievement to Adult Opportunity: The School Counselor Role and Beyond, and plans to conduct a follow-up in the 2014-15 academic year.