AI IN COLLEGE ACCESS/SUCCESS
AI IN COLLEGE ACCESS/SUCCESS
GenerationAI is a movement designed to empower K-12 educators with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to safely and responsibly capture the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the classroom. Includes webinars, events, tools, newsletters, etc. free for educators.
The National College Attainment Network has a Slack community available to all NCAN members. They have an "AI" slack channel where folks can connect with other college access/success practitioners on this topic.
Google Folder of resources from NCAN's AI training at their 2025 National Conference. Includes various presentation decks, example policies, and launch guides, focused on AI use to support postsecondary access and success work.
T3 Advisory: AI in Action, A Practical Playbook for Postsecondary Intermediaries
This playbook illustrates AI use cases and features for postsecondary intermediary organizations. This playbook is structured to support organizations across a wide range of AI adoption, particularly for those which are in early adoption phases.
Some peer orgs like One Goal and Bottom Line use Mainstay's hybrid advising chat bot to support their postsecondary success advising programs.
College search, list-building, and tracking platform with built in AI tool to automatically evaluate pictures of financial aid award letters and create reports of types of aid offered/amounts. More info on DecidED on this page.
Playlab is a nonprofit providing tools for educators to build AI-powered apps. We have piloted using Playlab at the National Office to create a Breakthrough chatbot- reach out to Alex Serna to learn more!
The Fair Opportunity Project has several AI-driven tools in their "Instant Help" section, including a career exploration tool, FAFSA help tool, essay reviewer tool and virtual college counselor tool.
This links directly to the Fair Opportunity Project's AI-driven FAFSA help tool. This tool has been recommended by colleagues at NCAN.
This FAFSA Chatbot was created by the Baton Rouge Youth Coalition using Google's Notebook LM tool. It was shared via NCAN and is an example of a chatbot built by an individual organixation for student and family use.
Recording of a webinar hosted by One Goal which discusses key AI strategies used in their postsecondary success work.
Periodic events and webinars hosted by GenerationAI focused on AI for educators.