Dear Graduate, I am writing this missive because it is important to pass along information that may help you avoid pitfalls including making choices that have unintended consequences. Unfortunately, when I completed my bachelors degree at Cheyney University no one provided me with a roadmap or a detailed outline. In retrospect, I would have benefited […]
Ebony Editor Shares Life Lessons at Claflin Convocation
Sharing experiences from her personal professional journey, Ebony Editor-in-Chief Mitzi Miller said every Claflin student can be a visionary leader and laid out some steps for success during her address at the University’s 2015 Spring Convocation on Tuesday, Jan 27, 2015 . “The first step to being considered a visionary leader is to realize in […]
College Survival 101: Thriving in Chaos
Surviving college as HBCU students truly means more than getting your college degree and going out in the world to get a job. It means more than accepting the conditions of the present just to say that you are a college student. What it does represent is the past battles that was began being waged […]
5 Habits of Financially Responsible College Students
Your responsibility in this 21st century will hinge on being able to learn from many conceptual frameworks of study. You have to become an all around individual and that can mean being able to learn from many different sources of information. The times have presented themselves where all college students must incorporate finance as a […]
Dare to be Successful: Insights from a Hip-Hop Mogul
How do you get from where you are at this moment to where you want to be? What will it take to begin aligning up your priorities in order to make this great transition? How do you position yourself for the type of success that you want to achieve in this life? Brian Tracy noted […]
How to Find a Mentor in High School
A mentor is someone who can provide guidance in all areas of your career. Here are a few tips for high school students to find one that’s right for them.
Time Management Tips to Get More Done in College
No matter how talented a person is, he only has twenty-four hours in a day just like everyone else. The most productive people are those that understand just how precious these hours are. In college, the principles of effective time management apply. There are so many distractions that could keep you off track. There are […]