I grew up in the 1980’s listening to a lot of New Wave music – I was even a part-time DJ, great job! A favorite group of mine at the time was Missing Persons – a classic New Wave group. One of the band’s songs streamed on my laptop today as I was working, ”Words” –…
Do you work to earn a living? Or do you love what you do so much that you’d do it for free? If you work to earn a living, how would your life change if you loved your work instead? We’ve all participated in those retreats or workshops on how to be more successful. I…
Next month the Center for Hispanic Leadership(CHL) will be hosting its first annual Leadership Summit whose theme will focus on embracing innovation through diversity. I was fortunate to have been invited to participate in the summit which will take place September 18th in Los Angeles. CHL Founder and CEO, Glenn Llopis, was gracious enough to…
My alma mater and previous employer, The University of Texas at El Paso Career Center, had four UTEP Summer Interns blog about their experiences this Summer. The UTEP Career Center continues to do some innovative things - I highlighted their other strategies in the 4 Year HSI Career Center podcast a couple of months ago. This initiative featured five summer interns reprsenting four…
Untitled from Miguel A. Corona on Vimeo. Some organizations that are doing their part this Summer to help develop Hispanic the Hispanic leaders and talent of the future. Watch the video, the list will make a bit more sense. : ) Colleges and Universities Here is a short list of colleges and universities that are…
Congratulations to Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. She becomes the third woman on the Supreme Court.
It’s one thing to argue that Hispanics are behind in educational achievement and quite another not to provide the needed institutional support systems to help them close the gap. Catching up on reading some articles from last week regarding the challenges and issues faced by Hispanic college students entering higher education. This overview article in the the New York…
I’ll be on vacation for next couple weeks but will be doing some “micro-blogging” via Twitter. You can catch me at @MiguelACorona (or follow the Twitter link on the RHS of the page). See you in a couple weeks!
I’m thankful for being a father. Like other dads out there, I love my kids and am proud of everything they’ve already accomplished in their young lives. I’ve been very fortunate. Having worked from home for the last 12 years, I’ve had the unique pleasure of raising my kids: being there to watch their first…
NACE 2010 was the first conference I felt I attended without being there (see Day 1 and Day 2 posts). In talking with several career centers and employers before the conference, I know that budget constraints minimized either their presence or cut their participation all together. While I’ve followed conference discussions via Twitter before, there…
