At the Success Center, peer-to-peer tutoring, resume-writing workshops and informal mentoring are offered – from one veteran to another. Today, veterans or their dependents, which could include their spouses or siblings under the G.I. Bill, account for more than 1,600 of FAU's overall student body of
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The American Staffing Association recently named Carmel resident Nicole Bieker as Volunteer of the Year. ASA is the trade association representing the U.S. staffing industry. Bieker is vice president of Operations at Milliner and Associates at 96th Street and Gray Road and manages to find time to
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Prof Khadim Hussain, head of Bacha Khan Education Trust, who attended launch of the Urdu edition of I am Malala in Lahore by Mashal Publishers, regretted that there was no edition of the book in Pakistan in Malala's mother tongue so that her people could know about her side of the story. “The Urdu
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Creative writing provided a safe space to process her experiences, she said. As Houston Youth Poet Laureate, Kalamangalam hopes to extend similar opportunities to Houston youth. She added that she is especially interested in breaking down divisions between communities, age groups, and writing
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