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Combining Part-Time College with a Part-Time Healthcare Administration Degree

A lot of students attending HBCU’s aren’t just working with a full-time class load – before and after classes, students are handling a much larger workload with part-time jobs, extracurricular activities, and even online degrees in other fields, like healthcare. Students are probably some of the hardest workers I know. If you’re someone looking in […]

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HBCU Campus Tours: 2014 Spring Schedule

College Bound, HBCU Visits / HBCU Reports

If you are a college bound high school student, visiting potential colleges is the best way to help you and your family decide if potential universities are the right fit for you. Your experience will vary from school to school. That’s why it’s important see the school’s classrooms, dorm rooms, apartments, cafeteria, library, activities center,

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The Next Great Dorm Room Startup will Come from an HBCU

Careers, Career Exploration / Tyrone Brackens

As our political and financial systems run rampantly out of control, a new wave of innovative thinking bold experimentation and creative leadership is quietly sweeping away outdated economic models. Our world is changing right before our eyes and you must be able to discern the season in which we are operating in to make the

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How HBCU Students Can Creatively Pay for College and Avoid Debt

College Planning / Tyrone Brackens

It seems as though all we hear about college is the rising tuition rates. While this may be true many HBCU are ever working towards making college more affordable. With the in-state low cost tuition many HBCU’s provides paying for college still can become a struggle for many. This is where the rubber meets the

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HBCU Homecoming Football Schedule 2013

HBCU Events / HBCU Reports

Every fall HBCU students, faculty, alumni and friends come together in honor of the annual Homecoming celebration. The festivities typically kick off between October and early November. The Homecoming festivities include greek step shows, events for HBCU alumni, concerts, parades, parties, plenty of tailgating, and of course the Homecoming football game that includes the spectacular

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HBCU Collaboration: Crowdfunding and Networking to Better Our Schools

HBCU College Life / Tyrone Brackens

If you type the word “collaboration” into Google’s search engine you will get 177 million results. Although this may not surprise you since you are well versed in the big social collaborators of our time (I.e. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn); it does however signal a change that could spread into HBCU’s. What messages can you

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REPRESENT: Show Your School Pride, Help Raise $150,000 for HBCUs

HBCU Colleges, HBCU News / HBCU Reports

Allstate and the Tom Joyner Foundation are working together to engage students, alumni and supporters of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) across the country to raise scholarship funds as part of the fifth annual Allstate Quotes for Education program. For every person who receives an insurance quote from a participating Allstate agent and mentions

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How HBCU Students Can Find a Great Mentor

Campus Life, HBCU College Life, HBCU Colleges / Tyrone Brackens

In my last article, I mentioned how obtaining a “Millionaire Mindset” would help to shift your perspective as a college student. Although those principles were simplistic and easy to understand you still must grasp the importance of finding a mentor who can walk you through the steps in more detail. It can take years to develop

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