Cass C. Wright, M.S., Vice President of OnTrack, works tirelessly on behalf of all high school students and their families. Cass believes that all students should have the opportunity to attend some form of post-secondary education, and he further believes that all parents and mentors should be given the correct information to make sound decisions.This belief began during the more than a decade that Cass spent as an assistant high school and middle school principal/behavior specialist with the Erie School District. As the number of counselors dwindled down over the past ten years, and students weren’t getting the help they needed, Cass developed Pathways to Post-Secondary Education.
It was a curriculum designed to give students the information they needed to attend some form of post-secondary education with complete funding in hand.
Not only did Cass give students a curriculum, but he was there to help every step of the way. The combination of his tireless work ethic and phenomenal success with Pathways made Cass a prime candidate to join UIF. He did so in 2012 and has since created OnTrack to post-secondary education and beyond, which is eLearning based, allowing UIF to offer this service to students around the world.
Cass will continue to work on behalf of high school students and their families to make sure they get the help they need in order to accomplish their goals of attending some form of post-secondary education, with funding in hand.
Schooling, Organizations, and Awards:
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B.S. in Education, Gannon University
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Master’s in Education, Edinboro University
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Served 5 years as Program Coordinator of the GECAC Educational Talent Search Program
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During his time as coordinator, he assisted 1,300 Erie School District students with the post-secondary process and the students that used the program were awarded over $15 million in federal State and institutional aid.
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Worked at the largest high school in Indiana as Head Dean of Ben Davis High School, where he helped reduce truancy, suspensions, and suspensions due to drugs, alcohol, and weapons
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Through OnTrack over the last three years Cass has helped 1,500 students earn more than $40 million dollars in Federal, State and institutional aid in order to attend some form of post-secondary education.
