With summer winding down, it’s time to start thinking about the upcoming semester. Are you ready for a fresh start? A new opportunity? Getting involved during college is essential to making the most of your time on campus. With all the changes and new experiences, you need a group of people that you can connect [...]
Posts Tagged ‘student action’
Get Plugged In
Posted: 10th August 2010 by Nicole in A Higher Campus, College Bound, College Leadership, College Living, College OpportunityTags: A Higher Campus, campus ministry, college, college campus, College Living, college opportunities, college students, student action, student organization, wisdom
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Helping Haiti
Posted: 5th February 2010 by Nicole in College Leadership, College Living, College OpportunityTags: Haiti, make a difference, student action
Christa Brelsford is a graduate student at Arizona State University. A few weeks ago, she was in Haiti volunteering at the Cabois Literacy School when the catastrophic earthquake hit. Although she was one of the first Americans airlifted to a hospital, her injuries were so severe that surgeons had to amputate her right foot. She [...]
Sweep Streets
Posted: 26th January 2010 by Trevor in A Higher Campus, College LivingTags: leader, MLK, student action
Last week, I was reminded of the far-reaching effect our lives can have. As we listened to Martin Luther King III share about his father’s legacy, I couldn’t help but think about what happens when we simply do, with our whole heart, what God shows us to do. No matter the task asked of us, [...]
Young Wonders
Posted: 16th December 2009 by Nicole in A Higher Campus, College Leadership, College Living, College OpportunityTags: CNN, college opportunities, make a difference, student action
Did you hear about CNN’s Top Ten Heroes of 2009? Every year, CNN hosts a global search for everyday individuals who are changing the world. More than 9,000 nominations were submitted this year from 100 countries. The heroes range from an Army veteran who distributes pediatric wheelchairs to kids in need to a breast cancer [...]
Use Darkness for Good: Million-Dollar Scholar
Posted: 24th November 2009 by Trevor in College Leadership, College Living, College OpportunityTags: college opportunities, focus, leader, make a difference, student action
When life is unfair, do you keep a positive focus? Do you see that darkness can be used to make you deep and strong? Derrius Quarles, who was recently offered more than $1 million in college scholarships, makes it a point to use pain as motivation to go higher and further. Derrius was 5 years [...]
Project Health: See & Help
Posted: 5th November 2009 by Trevor in A Higher Campus, College Leadership, College Living, College OpportunityTags: help, make a difference, power of one, student action, Time
Don’t undervalue your college experience. If anything, make the most of your time. That’s what Rebecca Onie, founder of Project Health, did. As a sophomore, during one of her weekly visits to Boston Medical Center, she asked a physician, “If you had unlimited resources, what would you give your patients?” The question and answers proved [...]
Agent Tim Online
Posted: 11th September 2009 by Trevor in A Higher Campus, College LeadershipTags: Daniel, higher, make a difference, student action
When college students speak up, others listen. In the same way that Daniel caused his friends and a nation to look higher, you have the same opportunity. If you’ll live with integrity in the details of your life, you’ll find that God will begin to expand your influence. He’ll use you to encourage others to [...]
Sterling College: Pies for People
Posted: 28th April 2009 by Trevor in College OpportunityTags: college campus, community, make a difference, Sterling College, student action
When campuses and communities come together, a lot of good can take place. Just ask the students, staff, and faculty at Sterling College who participated in the school’s first “Bake Night.” The volunteers, with the help of the Sterling College Kitchen, baked 60 organic butternut squash pies to give to those in their community who [...]
Good Samaritan: What Would You Do?
Posted: 20th April 2009 by Nicole in A Higher CampusTags: ABC, college opportunities, good samaritan, help, student action, what would you do
”Kitty Genovese was brutally attacked as she returned to her apartment late one night. She screamed and shrieked as she fought for her life . . . yelling until she was hoarse . . . for thirty minutes . . . as she was beaten and abused. Thirty-eight people watched the half-hour episode from their [...]
Slumdog Millionaire
Posted: 18th March 2009 by Nicole in College OpportunityTags: donate, get involved, give, help, India, make a difference, movie, slumdog millionaire, student action, world
Last weekend, we went to see the much-talked-about movie, Slumdog Millionaire. Though we were a little leery of the moving rating and the high acclaim it received at the awards shows recently (we hardly ever seem to like any of the award-winning movies), we had heard good things about it from some friends, so we [...]