February 2, 2026 • 10:13 am | Advise NC
As the Avery County Next Step Adviser, Fitz Fitzgerald is responsible for helping students make a plan for life after high school. He guides students in choosing which pathway may be right for them, whether that be college, the military, or joining the workforce. He...
November 7, 2025 • 8:18 am | Advise NC
The midway mark of the fall semester has come and gone, bringing thousands of students across the state to a critical point in their senior year of high school. Senior year brings with it a multitude of additional tasks as students and their families...
November 3, 2025 • 12:56 pm | Advise NC
On Tuesday, October 14, Ashe County High School participated in College for North Carolina’s “Countdown to College Week” with an event planned and organized by Ashe County’s Advise NC Next Step Adviser, Lorena Calvillo. Present at the event...
April 9, 2025 • 12:33 pm | Advise NC
On September 24, 2024, Hurricane Helene made landfall in Ashe County, North Carolina. The devastation following the storm left many families in rural Ashe without power, water, internet, or access to main roads for weeks. Ashe County Schools were also greatly...
January 7, 2025 • 8:10 am | Advise NC
Have you ever gotten something you really wanted and then once you have it you don’t know if you want it anymore? That is exactly how eighteen-year-old me felt after a semester at UNC Chapel Hill. Honestly, I didn’t know I wanted to go to Carolina until I got...
December 20, 2024 • 11:06 am | Advise NC
Dear AppCAC, As college advisers, we hold a unique and powerful position: we guide students through one of the most transformative stages of their lives. Every day, we are given the opportunity to make a difference in a young person’s future by offering them...
September 16, 2024 • 3:24 pm | Advise NC
It’s strange returning to a place you vowed you would never return to…yet that is what I was doing when I started as a College Adviser at my old high school, Ashe County High School last year. It is ironic even – the older me almost laughs at the attitude the...
