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"Are Your Kids Really Safe at College? Website and Weblog Gives College Students and Parents Information on College Safety Ratings, College Safety Guides, Products, News and Information

By Anonymous

Orlando, FL – Going away to college with everything going on in the world today can be exciting and a bit scary. When parents think about their college years, they remember the fun times and the people they met along the way. Then they realize how lucky they were to survive. Armed with experience, they now realize the risks and dangers that they innocently faced back then.

Did you know that many different crimes are committed more on campus than off campus? You may not want to advertise that too much to your kids, but you can take steps to help them be aware and be safe.

Safety awareness has never been more important than right now. College crime is up on campuses across the country and Mom and Dad are worried. To help parents and students, www.CollegeSafe.com has a series of free safety guides and tips for college safety and a continuously updated weblog www.CollegeSafeBlog.com filled with safety news, tips and information.

Www.CollegeSafe.com is a division of Main Street Safety, an internet based company focused on the latest and best safety information and products. Get the kids ready for school so they can go study, play and have fun, confident that they have the latest safety information and products available.

College years are among the most important and most challenging years of our lives. Let them be safe years as well. The weblog is full of news articles and practical advice on how they can come home with the best possible memories. Going to school, the beach, clubs, dances and parties should be safe, fun, and create memories that will last a lifetime. Don’t let them be caught off guard, or be caught in an unsafe situation that will ruin their time at college. They can have freedom, fun and be safe, too.

The advice on the weblog will help them to stay out of jail, avoid potential violence, protect their friends and prevent them from getting ripped off. Sections cover campus safety, how to have a social life and live to tell about it, how to avoid scams and rip offs, how to protect their privacy and basically how to come home in one piece.

Let your kids know that they are able to take care of themselves and be campus-smart. Use the weblog, free safety guides and specially chosen products to care for your kids and their circle of friends in today’s world.

During the college years we develop relationships and friendships that may last the rest of our lives. The people at www.CollegeSafe.com are dedicated to providing the latest information, products and news to help your children to have a safe and secure time on and off campus. The safety information they learn today will last a lifetime for them and their friends

Check out the resources at www.CollegeSafe.com and www.CollegeSafeBlog.com and help your kids be smart, be prepared, be confident and be safe wherever they go.

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5 Steps to Help your Child Succeed in College

By Bruce Gibbs

Need help to prepare your child for college. This article list 5 things you can do to help them be successful in college.
It is just around the corner. Your child is about to graduate from high school. For the past year you and your child have been filling out college applications, financial aid forms, consent forms, you name it. Your child is about the leave the world of high school behind and enter into the new world of higher education. Each year millions of students enter college but not all of them stay. How do you help your child prepare for college successfully? How do you give him or her a firm foundation that they can stand on when they are away from home at college? Here are five steps you can do to make sure that your college student has a great foundation for success.

Encourage - Encouragement can go a long way in helping a student to be successfully in college. One thing you should encourage your child to do is to get to know their professors. This one step alone can help them tremendously throughout their collegiate career. Many instructors will not flunk someone that they know and that they know that student is trying their best. I encourage students to introduce themselves to their professors before the semester or quarter starts. This can be done via a short email or a quick visit to the professor’s office to say hi and that he or she is looking forward to being in his or her class.

Let Go - As a parent, you have to be willing to let go. While your child has to be ready to go to college, you as a parent also have to be ready to let your child go. Your child needs to know that you will be okay so that she can concentrate on being a success in college. Yes, your child will miss you and may even wish she was back at home with you but you must reassure your child that while you will miss her that you are okay with her leaving and starting a new life. It is natural for children to leave the nest. And yes, it can hurt but we as parents have to let go.

Keep Communication Open - Sometimes when children leave home they forget that there’s an invention call a telephone. Let your child know that want to hear from them. Reassure them that it’s okay to call home not just when they get good grades or when they want money but also if they receive a disappointing grade and they need someone to talk to. College students sometimes try to shield their parents from a lot of things, thinking that they will only worry.

Give them their Space - Children leave home to go to college not just to get a degree but also as a sign of independence. Try to respect this part of moving into adulthood. Don’t visit your child every weekend on campus. College is a time when students need to learn to take care of themselves. They need time to study and to meet people and make new friends. This doesn’t mean not ever visiting them or not calling them. The key here is to keep it to a reasonable level.

Talk about Finances - Outside of studying, money or the lack of it, will be one of the biggest issues your college student will face. Many students graduate college in a mountain of debt and many times this debt is credit card debt. College students are surrounded by credit card companies and schemes to get them to sign up for credit cards. Help your child to remain out of debt as much as possible by discussing with them the responsible use of credit cards. Or you may wish to give them a card that either has a low limit such as $500 or a credit gift card that you put money on and they can only spend that amount. These types of cards are available at some banks and credit card companies.

Sending your child off to college can be hard. But it is a part of their growth and we have to give them the wings and the space to fly.

About the Author

Bruce Gibbs has worked as a college instructor and is the author of the college success book, Giving Away the Keys: A Professor Unlocks the Secrets to College Success. Details about the book can be found at www.GivingAwaytheKeys.com .The book is available at all major bookstores and online retailers such as Amazon.com.

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GMMDA Offers Scholarships To Minority Youth

By Anonymous

SOUTHFIELD, MICHIGAN – Wednesday, November 20, 2002 – The General Motors Minority Dealers Association (GMMDA) is offering scholarships to minority students across the country through a scholarship program created by members of the GMMDA.

Under the scholarship program, 15 minority students who are currently enrolled in a college or university will be awarded individual scholarships in the amount of $2,500 to help cover the cost of their educational expenses. The scholarships will be awarded on January 31, 2003 at the 14th Annual GMMDA Scholarship and Awards Banquet to be held at the Hyatt Regency, Embarcadero Center in San Francisco.

According to Scholarship Committee Chairperson John Reggans, III, the GMMDA restructured the program last year to give minority dealers the opportunity to use the scholarship program to embrace their individual communities. “Now we have a more personal involvement in the program,” said Reggans, III. “Seeing the faces of the young people we helped last year and receiving their letters of gratitude was priceless.”

The GMMDA is looking to increase the number of scholarships awarded this year. “We believe education can make all the difference in the lives of minority youth,” said GMMDA President Gregory Jackson. “We are happy to continue to offer the scholarships this year and we are looking for new ways to make the program even more effective.”

A Summer Internship program beginning in 2003 will be one expansion of the existing scholarship program. The program will offer a select number of minority students across the country a ten-week internship within different facets of the GMMDA dealer network and the automobile industry. The internship program will be funded in part by General Motors Acceptance Corporation (GMAC) and other GMMDA vendors and supporters.

Scholarship applications are currently available at participating GMMDA dealerships. The GMMDA website, www.gmmda.org lists minority dealers “by state” and “by make”, and features a downloadable form of the application. Applicants will be evaluated on the strength of their academic performance, leadership and participation in school and community activities, work experience, career and educational aspirations, and on the strength of their personal statement. Completed applications must be postmarked no later than December 2, 2002.

The GMMDA is a non-profit organization that represents the interest of over 385 minority owned General Motors dealerships across the country. The mission of the GMMDA is to promote, protect and encourage the viability and profitability of all existing General Motors minority dealers and to encourage, through cooperative efforts with General Motors, the installation of new minority dealers in viable and profitable opportunities.

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