Creating New Futures
The following article originally appeared in Strictly Business Speaking from the CFES Brilliant Pathways center in Essex, NY, Rick Dalton, founder, CEO, and president of [...]
Get ready, or get left behind
This op-ed by CFES President & CEO Rick Dalton originally appeared in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise. Twenty-six years ago, I started an organization called CFES [...]
Becoming College & Career Ready: Four Young Women Set the Standard
Rick Dalton, CEO & President of CFES Brilliant Pathways, shares the story of four high school seniors who overcome obstacles in becoming college and career [...]
A College Wake-Up Call: Committing to Economically Disadvantaged Students
We have created a postsecondary system where, too often, those who need the most help get the least and those who need the least get [...]
In My Opinion: No soft skills; all are essential today.
Tomorrow’s jobs call for skills not taught in textbooks. CFES helps tomorrow’s job-seekers build them. The following op-ed by CFES President and CEO Rick Dalton [...]
College and Career Readiness Starts With Essential Skills
In a newly published EdDigest article, CFES President and CEO Rick Dalton explores how Essential Skills drive student growth and development. READ THE FULL ARTICLE [...]
Creating a Major League Education for All
In a recent op-ed published in the Topeka Capital-Journal, CFES CEO and President Rick Dalton teams up with his son Erick Dalton, director of advance [...]
CFES Featured on Education Talk Radio
CFES President & CEO Rick Dalton, and CFES Program Director Leroy Nesbitt were recently interviewed on Education Talk Radio. Education Talk Radio host Larry Jacobs [...]
Essex, Oxford Aligned On College Importance
Oxford University’s colleges have scholarship funds available for low-income students. ESSEX — Oxford University's colleges have scholarship funds available for low-income students. The problem, however, [...]
Propelling Students to Beat the Odds
Last month, a young woman who grew up in a low-income household in rural Kentucky was accepted early decision to Harvard. The following op-ed, written [...]