Tag: Career Pathways

Opinion

3 Steps Toward More Equitable Networks On Campuses

As the Biden administration commits to expanding resources to college students and postsecondary institutions with the fewest financial resources, there’s no shortage of proposals on how best to put those dollars to work to improve college access. But most of these big bets suffer a blindspot: more equitable pathways to opportunity will require access to networks, not just credentials.

June 15, 2021

African-American

TMCF to Create National Black Talent Bank to Increase Diversity in Workforce

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) will create the National Black Talent Bank in an effort to increase corporate diversity and advance economic pathways for talented African American students. The talent bank will have a database of talented Black high school seniors and create alternative paths to college and career. It will also give a […]

June 7, 2021

HBCUs

Leave Ready, to Pivot: A Researcher’s Reflection on Purpose Beyond the Professoriate

“Leave Ready” is a campaign by Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) for its students centered on the notion of readiness. Signs and graphics, at one point, populated the campus with pictures of students and successful alumni with the slogan “Leave Ready.”

June 3, 2019

Opinion

College is a Place of Self-Discovery And Reinvention

Thankfully, in America we are not required to have it all figured out by age 17. Our 17-year-old inclinations and test scores do not have to determine our subsequent years. We live in a land of second chances. Students, enrolled in community colleges to elite universities, are encouraged to rediscover and reinvent themselves. That is, to search for what’s “worth wanting.”

June 2, 2019