Redefining the Bachelor’s Degree

How do you redefine something that is known globally? Simple: you repurpose it. The Baccalaureate, more commonly known as the Bachelor’s degree, has been the base standard of higher education for centuries. It maintains its influence even today. It is the foundational degree for a professional and mostly white-collar career.  The Bachelors has traditionally been […]

The Tunnel

It’s Giving Standing on Confidence! Are you nervous or comfortable in conversations? Be honest with yourself. Let me break it down evenmore. Let’s say a high-powered executive over a brand you want to partner with approaches you. Areyou looking them directly in the eye the entire time? What about this, are you expressing why you’repassionate […]

Building Academic Progress for Student Athletes

What’s your number? That’s such a broad question. If you ask athletic programdirectors, they might run down for you the number of players on a team orperhaps the amount of games won throughout the department. If you ask thisquestion to student athletes, well, they have multiple numbers, but there is a mainone in particular that […]

Why? Well, Why Not Me?

I was never an athlete! Torn ACL? Nope. Broken leg from sliding into third base? Never. Concussion from being tackled on the 40-yard-line? I don’t even want to imagine! So, exactly how and why did I get here? Easy. My dad cultivated my passion for sports. As both the sports editor for our community newspaper […]

Should Student Athletes Get Paid?

Has anyone checked out the video of Cam Newton giving viewers a behind-the-scenes tour of a $1 million closet? Don’t get me wrong, I’m amazed at the fact that a two-story closet with tons of fashionable items exists, but I’m mostly fascinated with how the former Carolina Panther has taken his career into his own […]

The Tunnel

By: Lenox Stanford Let’s set the scene! YOU…LOOKIN…LIKE…A….WHOLE….ELEGANT VIBE….RIGHT….NOW! Your skin is lavishly moisturized with the finest oils from a poppin product line, your personal wardrobe stylist understood the entire assignment and got an A and your barber/beautician executed the cut you showed them from your favorite influencer’s page. But wait, you need your theme […]

Putting the “Student” back in Student Athlete

By: Patrick Bruce Hard work and persistence are key ingredients for success. Once athletes dedicate themselves to those ingredients, the results will follow. Those results bring options, especially for college athletes. The Advent of NIL has caused a frenzy in the past few years among athletes, their families, and higher education institutions. All agree about […]