A good friend of mine emailed me over the weekend to let me know that he just completed all the requirements to earn his doctorate. It was an exciting time for him and his family. Having been in the same doctoral program with him four years, I appreciated his accomplishment – the many lonely nights…
Have you ever felt like you have been devalued by someone else? How did it feel? Were you angry and downtrodden? I have and know exactly how it feels when other people have devalued who I am and what I do. I regained my emotional composure in spite of these judgments, and realized that I…
When we enter this world, each of us begins our education. Aside from our parents, everyone we encounter shares (and imposes) conventions, values, beliefs, and perspectives of the “new world” we’ve entered, and how it really works. As the youngest member in a family of nine, I can assure you — it’s true! This fact…
If you have chance, please take look at my latest guest post on the Intern Matters blog. It discusses the importance of considering culture in a coaching situation – particularly in supervising Hispanic employees or interns. Enjoy!
A lot catching my interest over the last few days but lots going on offline - which is a good thing! Below are links to some articles/posts that I think you’ll find worth your time and learning. Enjoy! Hispanic College Success – All in the Family – A great article on what colleges are doing to support…
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…
A steady stream of tweets from the NACE 2010 Conference in Orlando kept me busy all day! Once again #NACE10 attendees shared valuable information — 140 characters at a time! Thanks again to all the tweepers keeping us “non-attendees” informed about the conference — much appreciated! Here are my takeaways as well as some tweets…
While I’m not at the NACE 2010 Conference this year, I feel like I am because of the flood of informative tweets coming out of the conference (#NACE2010). Thanks to everyone for sharing their great tweets. I’ve put together a quick summary of the #NACE2010 tweets thus far. Each tweet hopefully provides a starting point to review and…
A very cool article about how networking is good – but netweaving is better. So what is netweaving and how is it more valuable than networking? Here is how Karen Lindsey-Lloyd describes netweaving: Netweaving creates a different mental image and involves a different expectation. It’s more about building strong, mutually beneficial relationships while realizing that we all…
The Wall Street Journal shares an interesting story about Laura and Ivan entitled the “Tale of Two Students.” The article describes the educational paths of two former gang members and how their early education choices are now impacting their educations. One is going to college the other is not. Read the article to find out more….
