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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Halona Y. Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; but please, don&#8217;t be a nurse&#8230; I have never been one to stomp on a student&#8217;s dream.  As an advisor my job is to support and encourage a student&#8217;s dreams and plans for achieving their goals.  However, it pains me to talk to students who swear that getting a nursing degree is their one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halonaagouda.com&amp;blog=8622327&amp;post=403&amp;subd=halonayblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Summer School is a Waste of Time and Money</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 02:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Halona Y. Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Registration.  I absolutely hate it.  If I could give away part of my job to somebody else, it would be mass registration days.  The days when hundreds of new students arrive on campus needing to enroll in a course, &#8220;fix&#8221; their financial aid, buy overpriced books ($165 for a basic math book is ridiculous #imjustsayin), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halonaagouda.com&amp;blog=8622327&amp;post=448&amp;subd=halonayblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Can&#8217;t Learning Look More Like This?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Halona Y. Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah&#8230;  I love TED Talks.  If you ever need some inspiration for a new idea &#8212; or a new way of looking at an old idea, TED Talks is the place to go.  If I ever got invited to do a TED Talk, I&#8217;d just cry.  But back to the video&#8230; Physics, art, theater, world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halonaagouda.com&amp;blog=8622327&amp;post=422&amp;subd=halonayblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are Community Colleges Preparing Students for Change?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Halona Y. Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s be honest here.  There is no magic ticket to the perfect career anymore.  Students ask me all the time, &#8220;What kind of job can I get with this degree?&#8221;  That&#8217;s exactly the kind of outdated thinking we need to get our students out of.  Career services websites are riddled with those little charts giving [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halonaagouda.com&amp;blog=8622327&amp;post=391&amp;subd=halonayblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Good Advising Anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Halona Y. Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that my students don&#8217;t think I actually studied education?  They&#8217;re all shocked and surprised when I tell them that, yes, I actually have a master&#8217;s in education and took some doctoral level credits &#8212; also in education.  Is it because I&#8217;m too personable?  They take my attempts at harmless hallway chatter and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halonaagouda.com&amp;blog=8622327&amp;post=385&amp;subd=halonayblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Low-Income Students and Career Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Halona Y. Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you mean selling ice cream is not a career??? Like many kids, I loved the ice cream man. In fact, I loved him so much, I wanted his job! As a Brownie (younger version of Girl Scouts) in elementary school, I remember one of the activities we did was draw a picture of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halonaagouda.com&amp;blog=8622327&amp;post=355&amp;subd=halonayblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter for Adult Educators (Don&#8217;t be afraid&#8230;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 01:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Halona Y. Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[***Note: This post is about finding Twitter conversations relevant to adult education by using hashtags.  If you are new to Twitter, you may want to view this Slideshare presentation on Twitter for Educators by Samantha Morra. It seems that Twitter seems to be a bit scary for some of the adult educators that I meet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halonaagouda.com&amp;blog=8622327&amp;post=335&amp;subd=halonayblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of the Collective</title>
		<link>http://halonaagouda.com/2010/06/28/the-power-of-the-collective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Halona Y. Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 19th I attended Blogging While Brown, a conference bringing together bloggers of color.  The conference highlight for me was Gina McCauley&#8217;s presentation as part of a panel called, &#8220;The Future of Blogging.&#8221;  Gina is the founder of Blogging While Brown and blogs at What About Our Daughters.  In short, Gina showed us through [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halonaagouda.com&amp;blog=8622327&amp;post=326&amp;subd=halonayblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Than Just Spanish</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Halona Y. Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My experience working with African women as a Peace Corps Volunteer and development consultant has made me sensitive to the needs of the immigrant women I have had the pleasure of serving over the last few years.  I especially feel a strong connection to African women &#8212; for obvious reasons.  The challenge of working as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halonaagouda.com&amp;blog=8622327&amp;post=312&amp;subd=halonayblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Courage to Start Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Halona Y. Black</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you get to a point in life where you just can&#8217;t take it any more&#8230;  And I know I have surpassed that point.  I have had a very unhappy career and home life for a while now and it was time to make a change because &#8212; let&#8217;s face it &#8212; I&#8217;m not getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=halonaagouda.com&amp;blog=8622327&amp;post=293&amp;subd=halonayblack&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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