About Us

"Collectively we have robbed students of their senior year."

Mission Statement
The Education Conservancy helps students, colleges and high schools overcome commercial interference in college admissions. By affirming educational values, EC works to reestablish educational authority, equity and access as college admission precepts. It unites educational principles with admission practices. It returns control of college admissions to those who are directly involved in education: students, colleges, parents and high schools. It calms the frenzy and hype that plague contemporary college admissions.
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Goals

To increase the awareness and understanding of commercial influences in college admissions.
To provide a platform for educational values to assert their proper role in college admissions.
To promote educationally appropriate admission practices.
To make college admissions a sensible and productive set of processes for all.
To foster collaborative behavior among colleges.
To generate specific admissions-related ideas and recommendations for colleges, students, and counselors.

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Staff

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Services

Consulting with schools and colleges regarding the development of effective college counseling and recruitment programs, strategies, and materials.
Public speaking -- at conferences and to groups of students and parents. (more info-pdf)
Providing resources to counselors, students, parents and colleges.
Generating data that support educationally responsible admission policies and practices.
Collecting and disseminating information and advice.

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College Admission Values
These values direct appropriate and effective college admission activities:

The benefits and predictors of good education are knowable yet practically impossible to measure.
Rankings oversimplify and mislead.
The student's skills and attitude contribute more significantly to quality education than does the college the student attends.
Educational values are best served by admission practices that are consistent with these values.
College admissions should be part of an educational process directed toward student autonomy and intellectual maturity.
Colleges can be assessed but not ranked. Students can be evaluated but not measured.
Students' thoughts, ideas and passions are worthy to be engaged and handled with utmost care.

... identified by the Education Conservancy Advisory Board
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	Advisory Board
	Philip Ballinger Director of Admissions University of Washington Michael Beseda Vice Provost for Enrollment St. Mary's College of California Jennifer Britz Dean of Admissions Kenyon College Doris Davis Associate Provost for Admission & Enrollment Cornell University Edward Graf Co-Director of College Counseling Isidore Newman School Daniel Lundquist Vice President & Dean of Admissions & Finacial Aid Union College Brad MacGowan Career Center Director Newton North High School Bonnie Marcus Senior Associate Director of Admissions Bard College top of page	Robert J. Massa Vice President, Enrollment & College Relations Dickinson College Paul Marthers Dean of Admissions Reed College Martha "Marty" O'Connell Executive Director Colleges That Change Lives Ted O'Neill Dean of Admissions University of Chicago Jonathan Reider Director of College Counseling San Francisco University High School Jeff Rickey Dean of Admissions Earlham College Mike Sexton Dean of Admissions Lewis & Clark College

Contact Information
Lloyd Thacker
The Education Conservancy
805 SW Broadway, Suite 1600
Portland, OR 97205
Phone: 503.290.0083
Fax: 503.973.5252
Email: lthacker@educationconservancy.org

Lisa Reynolds
Phone: 503.290.5691
Email: lreynolds@educationconservancy.org

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