Glenbard News for Oct. 1, 2024

In this issue:

• Higher education expert to share insights on college admissions in GPS events
• It’s National Principals Month
• Students earn College Board National Recognition for academic excellence
• West fall band concert tonight

Higher education expert to share insights on college admissions in GPS events
The GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present Who Gets In And Why: A Year Inside College Admissions with Jeff Selingo. The program will be presented at noon and 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, via Zoom. Go to the GPS Parent Series website for information and the links to these two webinars.

Please share information about these events with friends and relatives.

To be placed on a reminder list for GPS events or submit a question in advance, contact Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at [email protected] or 630-942-7668.

To help make sense of the college admission process, journalist and higher education authority Selingo returns to GPS to give a peek behind the curtain of college acceptance. For an entire admissions cycle, he was embedded in three college admissions offices and followed a group of high school seniors through the application process. During this time, he learned from those who have a role in who gets in and why.

Selingo will highlight the implications of recent policy changes on acceptance and reveal why teenagers and families have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a good college.

Selingo has written about higher education for more than two decades and is a New York Times bestselling author. His book, “Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions,” was published in September 2020 and was named among the 100 Notable Books of the year by The New York Times. Selingo is a special advisor for innovation and professor of practice at Arizona State University. He also co-hosts the podcast FutureU. 

GPS is generously sponsored by the Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Cebrin Goodman Center, Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department, Duly Health and Care, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, KidsMatter, Endeavor Health, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Coalition, DuPage Regional Office of Education, and Webb-Hutter Family Fund of DuPage Foundation.

It’s National Principals Month
October is National Principals Month. We thank our principals for their exceptional work and selfless dedication to our students, faculty, staff and the community. We appreciate their leadership, knowledge, empathy and collaborative spirit.

Students earn College Board National Recognition for academic excellence
Congratulations to the following students on earning academic recognition as part of the College Board National Recognition Programs: 

National African American Recognition Program honorees: Glenbard East students Rahma Ahmed, Romello Jones and Agnes Ruaika; Glenbard North students Amani Carter, Julianna Easton and Madelyn Sierra; Glenbard South students Aniyah Nelson and Oladeji Solola; and Glenbard West students Rhiannon Jones, Zekhi Joryman and Tobias Montilla. 

National Hispanic Recognition Program honorees: Glenbard East students Fernando Amezcua, Alexander Cook, Kevin Galeas Solis, Jay Garcia, Ashley Godinez, Olivia Gomez, Johnpavel Maldonado Melchor, Luis Munoz, Brandon Peralta, Alicia Rose Pina, Xavier Rios, Daniel Torres, Giovanni Urquiza, Angel Valerio and Herminia Zacatzi; Glenbard North students Julianna Easton, Wynter Gomez, Madelyn Sierra and Abigail Woitas; Glenbard South students Adam Berntsen, Nathan Diaz, Milan Djurcic, Yeira Gonzalez, Laura Lozano, Justin Olague and Isabella Serrano; and Glenbard West students Sergio Arredondo, Lauren Escalante, Grayson Ganser, Ava Garzaro, Ryan Gritis, Angelina Hernandez, Lucas Krynen, William Lafontaine, Declan McCarthy, Tobias Montilla, Sebastian Reynaga, Ayden Rodriguez, Berenice Sanchez and Jaciel Villanueva. 

National Indigenous Recognition Program honorees: Glenbard East student Imad Abu-Ghallous; Glenbard North students Zachary Ackerman and Madelyn Sierra; and Glenbard West students William Lafontaine and Tobias Montilla. 

National First-Generation Recognition Program honorees: Glenbard East students Fernando Amezcua, Anthony Badalamenti, Stephanie Cao, Rachel Daciolas, Kevin Galeas Solis, Jay Garcia, Ashley Godinez, Victor Hanson, Luis Munoz, Emily Nguyen, Brandon Peralta, Jack Rylands III, Anna Strag, Daniel Torres, Giovanni Urquiza and Herminia Zacatzi; Glenbard North students Asma Ali, Tu Bui, Corvin Dang, Wynter Gomez, Huzaifa Khan, Kayla Lamontagna, Vivian Luong, Dhruv S. Patel, Rene Pederson, Madelyn Sierra and Hogan Vo; Glenbard South students Briana Coppolino, Simona Georgieva, Asma Irfanullah, Ngun Mang, Diesel Oleksak and Isabella Serrano; and Glenbard West students Sergio Arredondo, Zacheriah Kando, Serena Malhan, Nikolina Mrkovic, Tina Nguyen, Ayushi Patel, Ishrat Patel, Aarogya Regmi, Berenice Sanchez, Eishaal Sodager, Kasper Szymczak, Amy Tran, Mila Vukmirovic and Jenna Woollard. 

The eligibility criteria for these national recognition programs include scores on the PSAT/NMSQT and Advanced Placement exams, grade-point average and identify as first-generation, Black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, Indigenous or Native. 

West fall band concert tonight
On Tuesday, October 1, at 7:30pm, the West bands will present their annual fall band concert. Concert Band, Symphonic Band, and Marching Band will show off their hard work. Admission is free will donation.