2024-2025 President’s Annual Report

The Executive Board, committee chairs, committee members and other volunteers throughout the state worked hard to reflect NYSACAC’s vision to be, “at the forefront of creating leadership and professional development opportunities in college admission counseling.” Below is a listing of some of the accomplishments that support our vision and mission.

NYSACAC Representatives  

We sunset the role of Delegates and created the role of Regional Representatives.  We divided the state into six regions and had a College Rep and a Secondary/CBO to work more closely within the designated areas.  

Geographic Diversity

This year’s committee co-chairs  continued to be selected to increase geographic representation across NYS, with the hopes to identify future leaders within our association.

Strategic Plan

We updated the NYSACAC Strategic Plan to make sure it aligns with our mission and vision.  This is a three year plan that will be reviewed yearly in July at our Board Retreat.

Camp College

SUNY Geneseo  hosted our first overnight Camp since the Pandemic.  Geneseo has made a $50K commitment to NYSACAC, $12,500 per year, to host Camp College from 2024-2027.  In 2024 we had 41 student applicationsfor Camp College,  and we are looking to expand attendance for the July 2025 program.  Special thanks to SUNY Geneseo for the assistance.  In addition, SUNY System has sponsored bus transportation for the 2025 event to assist Campers coming from the NYC area.  Thanks to SUNY for the generosity. 

Summer Institute

This summer we will be hosting our event on the beautiful campus of Marist University.  Plans are well under way for this event to take place during the first week of August.  We thank Skidmore College for their hospitality and look forward to another exciting program to help new professionals in our field

Website

Based on the feedback from our attorney, we reviewed our website to make sure it aligns with our Certificate of Incorporation.  This is something that many ACACs also completed in the early months of 2025

Ad-Hoc

An Ad-Hoc committee was created to help assist with reviewing potential Customer Relations Management Systems ( CRM).  This group reviewed and interviewed several vendors to see if their product could better assist our membership.  After careful consideration the organization will be staying with our current platform.

Future Conference Site

Nazareth University is hosting the 2026 Coming Together and Annual Conference, June 2-5, 2026. We have secured a host site for 2027 and conversations are occurring for 2028, but are always seeking future sites.

Challenges

The 2024-25 year had challenges for the association that need to continue to be considered in moving the organization forward.

1. The costs associated with running events have skyrocketed post-COVID. These expenses include food at events, facility use, transportation costs for bus rentals, etc.

2. We have had to look to more sponsors to offset the rising costs of our programming.  Securing sponsors is becoming more difficult with budgets being reduced.

3. NACAC Revenue Sharing.  Starting in January 2025, NYSACAC will no longer be receiving financial support from NACAC.  This will greatly reduce our expected income and may result in more difficult budget conversations in the future.

Respectfully submitted, 

Dave Follick

NYSACAC President