Resources

Success Workshops

The Office of Disability Services conducts Success Workshops each semester. Students registered with the Office of Disability Services will receive email invitations about each of the workshops.

Some of the topics include:
Time Management and Organization
Concentration Techniques and Study Skills
Motivation and Goal Setting
Understanding Your Disability and Articulating Your Strengths and Weaknesses
Disability and the Job Search Process: When and How to Disclose and to Whom?

Students Overcoming Barriers in Education (SOBIE)

What are our goals:
1. To educate and inform students about the rights and services available to them as dis/abled individuals.
2. To provide peer group support and counseling for all dis/abled students in order to foster meaningful connections and a sense of community.
3. To act as a liaison between dis/abled students and the Oberlin Services for Students with Disabilities Office.
4. To serve as an advocate for dis/abled students with the college administration to ensure that the college fulfills the educational needs of dis/abled and other students.
5. Educate the student body, the general faculty, the college administration and the community at large concerning ableism and the specific needs and challenges that the dis/abled face in higher education.
6. To eradicate institutionalized ableism at Oberlin College.
7. To establish Disability Studies in the Oberlin College curriculum.
8. To build and maintain alliances with other advocacy organizations on campus.
9. To create sustainable activism within the dis/abled community.

Dis/abled: We’ve chosen to use this term because no better term exists. We hope to create a dialogue around these topics in which the stigma of “dis/ability” does not exist, and our work centers around the goal that someday such words will no longer be necessary. We believe that there is some empowerment/access to be found in claiming of this term, but we also recognize that other people may choose to self-identify differently.

Career and Scholarship Opportunities


Careers for People with Disabilties

Study Abroad Scholarship

Various Scholarship Opportunities

Federal Career Opportunities

Education Opportunity


THIS MESSAGE IS SENT ON BEHALF OF BROTHER ROBERT ROBINSON

Greetings Brothers,

I wanted to let you know about a great opportunity here at Wake Forest where you can get a FREE education and get PAID while you're doing it. Our dean of the Schools of Business is the former CEO of PepsiCo and very committed to diversity. He's gone around to his CEO friends, who have agreed to donate a bunch of money to pay tuition and fees, provide a stipend, and a job, to diverse students. The details are below. The problem is, response to the program has been dismal! As a faculty member, I would be embarrassed for him to have to tell his CEO friends, "thanks so much for your donation, but unfortunately I have to give it back because we couldn't find any students who wanted it."

So, I need your help. Please contact me if you, or ANYONE you know is interested in the program. I want to take advantage of it and help out as many young scholars as I can. Don't worry about whether or not you (or they) have taken the GMAT, etc. All you need to do at this point is JUST APPLY. In business, you have to act when the opportunity is presented, and that is now.

The Master of Art in Management program is designed specifically for liberal arts majors only. The MA degree program is a 10 month intense study of the basic functional areas of business. After graduation and working for approximately two years, all MA graduates are eligible to apply to Wake Forest as part of the MA/MBA joint degree program and get the MBA in one year. The new dean, Steve Reinemund, has created a new scholarship for diverse students pursuing the MA degree called the Corporate Fellowship.

The Corporate Fellowship provides full tuition and a $21,000 stipend to cover living expenses. Additionally, each Corporate Fellow will participate in a practicum. The practicum has two components, educational and professional development. Each student will be assigned a mentor that is a high level executive with their sponsor corporation. The mentor will oversee an educational project covering 4 of the functional areas of business using their own corporation as the subject. The student will visit the corporation 3 - 4 times during the program to present his/her results of their research project.

Additionally, the professional development component of the fellowship provides career coaching and leadership development for the students. The goal for the corporation is to be able to groom and hopefully, hire a top candidate from a diverse background for their organization. Of course, there is no obligation that the students accept any offer of employment. Still, the student benefits, even if they are not ultimately hired by their sponsor corporation in that they have the MA degree and the type of experience that will make them more marketable.

Wake Forest University has an opportunity for minority students to attend their MBA program for FREE, and so far, the response has been very poor. Please, please pass along this opportunity to your friends, families, and networks to see if there is an interest.

This is a great school and a tremendous opportunity to attend a top graduate school. See details below.

The contact person for anyone who is interested is:

Derrick S. Boone, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Marketing
Room 3139 Worrell Professional Center
Babcock Graduate School of Management
Wake Forest University
1834 Wake Forest Drive
Winston-Salem , NC 27109-8758
derrick.boone@mba.wfu.edu