Category: Education

The Benefits of Mentoring Relationships For both the mentor and mentee, mentoring establishes a positive and close-knit relationship that provides benefits to both parties. For the mentee, it’s a chance to learn valuable knowledge, develop strategies for overcoming challenges and Read More

When I was a little girl, my father would ask me what I wanted to be when I grew up. “You can be whatever you want to be,” he’d say. “What about a trash collector?” I asked impishly. “Sure,” my Read More

While increasing girls’ access to education and training is crucial to their empowerment and success, it’s often not enough. Young women are earning higher degrees than ever before and making up the majority of the classroom. However, they continue to Read More

Traveling Backwards In 1984, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act was enacted into law. The purpose of this act was to promote career and technical education (CTE) programs through federal funding. When this law was originally passed, Read More

As a senior in college, preparing for graduation, I have been asked the question “So what comes next?” a nauseating amount of times. My education is set to expire, and I am expected to move onto “the real world” to Read More

Graduating from college can be scary, exciting, stressful, and fulfilling. There is a complicated mix of emotions when you finish a major chapter in your life, and sometimes things feel like they don’t make sense. But by remembering that so Read More

We know you’re just like us. You love to make a difference in someone else’s day. Whether it’s holding a door open for a stranger, or running a half marathon to raise money for a good cause, you’re all in Read More