College Excel
Bend, OR

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College Excel Announces
New Staffing and Developments

College Excel is pleased to introduce some new staff to their team: Brendan Bigos, BA, Director of Student Life, Alisha Wiater, MSW, Academic coach, Brighton Fowler, BA, our Student Leadership and Activities Coordinator, a former College Excel student and a recent magna cum laude graduate of Lawrence University and Kellyn Smythe, MS, and Director of Marketing, a coach at College Excel for the last few years, who will continue to support students with his expertise in math and science. In addition to these full time staff members, we have expanded our partnership with area professionals who include therapists, fitness coaches, a psychologist, nurse practitioners, artists and a blacksmith.

College Excel has expanded our trainings for all of our coaches which now includes BCI certification and training and computer addiction trainings with Hilary Cash and the Restart Program.

Other new developments at College Excel we are pleased to announce include DBT skills classes for the students that meet twice a week, personal trainers who work one on one with students twice a week to establish fitness and wellness and develop confidence and focus and we have added a second state of the art computer lab and Academic Center, which now doubles the available space for students to work.

We are also pleased to share that our first term College Success curriculum now earns our students four transferable college credits. Taught at our partner college by selected professors, the curriculum consists of credit courses in Values Clarification, Procrastination/Motivation and College Success in conjunction with collateral courses in Personal Finance, Conflict Resolution, Nutrition and Critical Thinking, providing our students with the foundational skills to thrive in a college setting.

College Excel is a college support program for young adults ages 18-27 with learning disabilities, poor decision making skills, anxiety and/or depression and low self esteem, needing help with independent living skills, task completion, stress management or abstaining from addictions.

To learn more about College Excel please visit the website at: www.collegeexcel.com.