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ASPIRE: Workshop Topics

ASPIRE provides outreach/workshops for student programs, organizations, and departments. ASPIRE seeks to personalize these services and interventions to make them more culturally relevant and specific to African/Black American and Hispanic/Latino(a) American students, faculty, and staff. Below are some of the most popular workshop requests:

Keys to Academic Success

Defeat the 10 habits of ineffective students and open the door to academic and personal success. Learn how to get an education, not just a degree.

Win Back Your Time

Use these time management strategies and regain control of your days. Learn how to take better care of yourself and live a balanced life.

Integrity Dating

Learn the ten key elements that can be deal breakers when in the early stages of a establishing a relationship. Learn the art of successful dating, why sexual intimacy should come after dating and the art and skill to a successful break-up.

Overcoming the Invincible Black Woman’s Syndrome

Being invincible is impossible an creates a host of psychological and medical problems. Being loved, proud, efficient, and getting your needs met are very different from being invincible. Unfortunately, these needs are the reasons why we try to be invincible to begin with. Exchange the impossible expectation of being "invincible" for ways to actually meet your needs.

Personal Finance Workshop

Often understanding your personal reaction to finances can explain how you create a budget and how debt begins. This workshop will teach the emotional tools needed for financial success. This workshop can be adapted to a co-ed audience.

Multicultural Responsibility

This workshop is designed to promote the idea of being aware of multicultural differences and allowing this awareness to empower our interactions with other people, and to recognize your own racial development and how to communicate cross culturally.

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