SPRING 2015
National Society of Leadership and Success
Ricky Finch, Editor in Chief
from the nation's leading
presenters and a community where like-minded,
success-oriented individuals come together and
help one another succeed.
The Society also serves as
a powerful force of good
in the greater community
by encouraging and organizing action to better the
world."
NSLS proudly states
that, "We Build Leaders Who Make a Better
World."
The NSCC chapter
The National Society
of Leadership and Success
established its charter on
the Nashville State Campus in 2008.
Since then NSLS has
been one of the premier
and fast growing honor societies on campus.
The national office's
mission states that, "The
Society is an organization that helps people discover and achieve their
goals. The Society offers
life-changing
lectures
English Major:
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Revamped Predators Roar to
the Top of Standings in
Smashville
Career Path's To Follow
Heather Ashley,Staff Writer
English majors have
most likely heard these
words time and time again
– “You majored in English? What can you do
with a degree like that?” Many people consider this
degree the dark horse of
humanities and some have
even called it “useless”.
Yet it’s safe to say that
this is, without a doubt,
not even close to the truth
about the infamous degree. Many English majors
have advanced in a variety
of careers – from magazines to teaching and even
outside of the typical fields
like chemical companies,
works hard to encompass
the values of NSLS by
setting a high standard for
the students invited to join.
Student must have a minimum GPA of 3.5 in order
to be considered.
Once a student accepts
the challenge of becoming
an inducted member, students must complete a variety of steps.
First, a student must
attend an orientation and
the Leadership Training.
Leadership training
Johnathan Thompson, Contributor
Fortune 500 companies,
and even in hospitality corporate management. Here
are some options of careers
that one can obtain with a
major in English.
Of course, the first
career that pops into most
minds when it comes to
this degree is teaching
English. Whether middle
school, high school, or
even elementary school,
most teachers obtain a
Bachelor’s degree in English with a teaching concentration.
Universities and community colleges tend to require further studying, with
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The Nashville Predators National Hockey
League franchise has
been in operation since
1998, for the 2015 season
a shakeup inside the organization brought about
many changes.
The Nashville Predators are completely different from when they first
took to the ice in 2008. Gone are the days and
nights of seeing Tom Fitzgerald as the first Predator
to wear the Captain’s “C”
on his sweater, original
starting goaltender Mike
Dunham making 30 to 40
huge saves per game to
keep the Predators in line
Photo Courtesy of David McCarger
for wins or ties.
Who can forget the
first ever Predators’ AllStar Sergei Krivokrasov
roofing power play goals
into the top of the net, or
the year-by-year progres-
sion of the first Predators’
draft pick David Legwand
developing into one of the
best NHL players taking
to the ice today. Future
Hockey Hall of Famers
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a Master’s or Ph. D. Also,
if some English majors are
not interested in teaching,
they could always go a
different route by working in school administrative offices with the rest
of the educational staff.
Some positions require a
high school diploma, such
as maintenance, janitorial,
security, or cafeteria staff,
while others might require
a Bachelor’s degree, such
as admissions, student aid,
human resources, financial
aid, or clerical positions.
Some may still require further studies, such as school
librarians. However, most
require a Bachelor’s degree.
Another popular medium to enter with an English degree is the journalism field. Whether an
editor or writer, most candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in order to
become part of a magazine
staff. While some may say
journalism is a dying field,
this is not so with all the
innovations that have been
brought to the field in today’s technologically-focused world. Social media,
blogs, web pages, and SEO
content pages are new and
recent innovations that
have merely evolved from
their earlier pen-and-paper
writing ancestors.
According to glassdoor.com, most web writing and editing positions
pay $30,000 to $60,000
per year, and the web editor national average is
listed as just a bit over
$49,000 per year.
Many English majors
enter into the Human Resources fields or become
Public Relations Specialists. These jobs require
leaders who are excellent
communicators as well as
talent seekers, while PR is
mostly associated around
communication as well. Both careers would be
perfect for English majors,
and usually require a candidate to obtain a 4-year
degree in order to qualify
for a position in a company. There tend to be an
abundance of job openings
for these sorts of positions
as well, as simplyhired.
com lists close to 600,000
job openings combined
for both careers across the
country.
English degree holders also tend to gravitate
toward Marketing and
Sales after graduating
college. These careers require leaders who can not
only communicate orally
and in writing, but also in
ways that will push ideas
and products. Sales people must set up events
and convince people that
something is worth pursuing. Candidates can also
go a step further and obtain a career as a marketing
writer since that falls more
in line with educational
requirements. A degree
not only in Marketing or
English, but Communications or Journalism could
also work for this type of
career.
Another popular career to get into with an
English degree is the tech-
nical writing field. Generally, one must hold a
four year degree, but a bit
of computer or technical
background helps as well.
It also seems to be one of
the more popular writing
careers as it currently lists
over 7,000 job openings
nationwide.
Librarians are also
popular when it comes to
English degree careers.
Some typically require
further studying after a
Bachelor’s degree, sometimes a Master's or Ph.
D., but many still require
four year degrees as well.
Knowledge of books, reading, and writing are always
a plus for this career, and
organized, detail-oriented candidates usually advance the quickest in the
field.
Communications specialist is another suitable
career for English majors.
These typically take four
year degrees in a related
field, though many others pursue further studies.
For the past month, there
were over 2,000,000 listed
jobs relating to communications across the country right now according
to simplyhired.com, and
most pay between $32,000
to the six figure mark according to glassdoor.com,
with a national average of
a little over $56,000 a year.
English majors can, indeed, find suitable careers
with their degrees. How
students use education is
what matters most. While
some careers may seem to
be drying up, opportunities tend to even out when
combining all the previous
career listings. Accounting
alone has close to 600,000
job openings online and
this field is said to be one
of the most abundant in the
country at the moment. All the combined careers for English degree
holders would easily hold
close to as many openings,
if not more. No degree is
useless as long as it is used
properly to advance in an
according career. ■
New Building to Open in 2015
Office of Student Life:
www.nscc.edu/studentlife
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like Paul Kariya and Peter Forsberg stopped by to
help the Predators make
playoff pushes.
Some of the things
that have changed were
bad, others were good, but
the tail end of last season
was a huge part of Predators history. Here’s what
new for the 2014-2015
season:
None of the original
Nashville Predators are
here anymore, including
head coach Barry Trotz.
Trotz is now behind the
bench of the Washington
Capitals after being released during the offseason. David Legwand was
traded towards the end
of the 2013-2014 regular
season to the Detroit Red
Wings, making him the last
original Predators player
to leave “Smashville”. Other than the departures, new additions were
big news in the offseason.
Veteran NHL head coach
Peter Laviolette is now
behind the bench of the
Predators. Also, prolific
scorer James Neal was ac-
quired by the Predators in
a trade with the Pittsburgh
Penguins that sent gritty
forward Patric Hornquist
and fellow forward Nick
Spalling to the Penguins.
General Manager David
Polie made a few more
shrewd moves signing
one time Phoenix Coyote
Mike Riberio to a one year
deal, and bringing in hard
hitting defenseman Anton
Volchenknov.
Off the ice, and behind the microphone, new
faces and voices will be
hitting the airwaves: former Predators enforcer
and former radio analyst
Stu Grimson now joins
the television team as an
analyst, replacing former NHL head coach and
original Preds broadcaster Terry Crisp, who now
hosts the pregame and post
game shows, and also reports during intermissions.
Grimson will be alongside
Crisp’s longtime partner
Pete Weber, a broadcast
veteran who has done both
radio and TV play-byplay. Also, former longtime Preds assistant coach
NSLS continued...
Photo Courtesy of Robin Jones
Photo Courtesy of David McCarger
Brent Peterson, who put
down the whistle in 2011,
now joins the radio team
as an analyst. Peterson will
sit alongside Willy Daunic,
who is now in his first full
season of play-by-play as
he replaced Tom Callahan
very early on last season.
Their 2015 season has
begun with a flurry on one
goal nail biters, a 9-2 blowout of the Toronto Maple
Leafs, a host of comeback
wins, overtime victories,
and heart pounding shoot
out wins.
Success on the ice has
paid off as premier defenseman Shea Webber and
super goalie Pekka Rinne
made the 2015 NHL All
Star team. Also, rookie
phenom Fillip Forsberg
has garnered a lot of attention as he leads the Preds
in points this season. His
hard work landed him a
day is designed to give future inductees an overview
of who and what NSLS is.
It also gives student an opportunity to network with
others, do a leadership assessment exercise and to
be introduced to new leadership concepts.
The next step is for
pending members to be
divided into Success Network Teams. SNT groups
meet at least three times
each semester.
At
the
meetings
groups spend time learning leadership principles
and how to set goals for
themselves. The biggest
successes for students are
from these meetings.
Students spend time
in SNT encouraging each
other to push the limits of
what they think can be accomplished for themselves
and become a support system for each other.
During the semester the students are also
required to attend a minimum of three Speaker
Broadcast. These broadcasts are seminars from
many industries leaders
and provide a great deal
of motivation and understanding of leadership.
The final and most
vital requirement for pending members is community service.
In order to be induct-
spot on the All Star roster as well. So far, the adjustments to the Predators
staff and lineup has paid
dividends on the ice and
have propelled the Preds to
the top of the NHL’s Central Division, alongside the
Chicago Blackhawks.
The Predators hope to
keep their momentum going after the All Star break
and deep into a Stanley
Cup Playoff run.■
ed, students must spend
time completing some
form of community service. This is key to who
the NSCC and the Society
is. A group of student giving back to the community
and setting the example
for what a student organization should be.
In the fall the NSCC
chapter took that concept
a step further by collecting
food for 2nd Harvest.
Current and pending
members collected ninety
eight pounds of food that
was donated to the 2nd
Harvest Food Bank and
continued a tradition of
excellence within the community .■
Office of Student Life:
www.nscc.edu/studentlife
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Nashville State Community College
HAVEN Sexual Assault Prevention Training Course
Spring 2015
Take a Training Course For a Chance to Win an iPad!!
For spring 2015,
NSCC has implemented
the online student wellness
program Haven – Understanding Sexual Assault
developed by the EverFi
Company.
This online training
course is designed to provide you with information
about how your choices
and personal decisions
relate to overall college
success and to help you
practice healthier and safer
decision-making.
The training is COMPLETELY CONFIDENTIAL. No one from the
college will have access to
your individual responses.
The college will see
collective data about student survey responses
which will help the college
to better understand and
meet the needs of our students.
Your name and A number will be tracked as a
“completer” of the training
through the training program itself and this will
serve as our raffle entry.
Training for Part 1 is open
through February 20.
Part 2 training will begin February 21 and run
through April 10.
The training (both parts
together, not separately)
takes approximately one
hour to complete.
The word “course”
is used in describing this
training as this is the word
used on the EverFi company website and training
materials. It is a training
experience which has no
credits and does not go on
your transcript.
The training is not
mandatory and you do not
need to “pass” the training.
As incentive to complete the training, all students who complete both
parts of the training will be
entered in a raffle for one
of two IPads.
If you have any additional questions about the
training, please feel free
to contact the office of the
Dean of Student Services
at (615) 353-3261. ■
Attention Students and Alumni!
The Career Services Office is excited to inform you about our new online job search database, College Central Network.
Students and Alumni can access the College Central Network below to search jobs, internships, co-op opportunities, resume
help, interview tips and much more! Employers can utilize the College Central Network to post job opportunities for students
and alumni at all six Nashville State campuses.
At your convenience, we ask that you please create an account with College Central Network in order to have access to the
most up-to-date information about jobs within your major.
To access the College Central Network, you will need to simply follow the link to our web page (below) and click on the word
“student” within the College Central Network Logo. The system will then prompt you to create an account.
You will need to use your student A# as your user name and create a unique password to have access to the system.
College Central Network Web page Link: http://www.nscc.edu/student-resources/career-services-office/
If you have any questions, please contact our office, 615-353-3248.
STAFF AND CONTRIBUTORS
Ricky Finch, Editor-in-Chief
Canhui Huang, Layout Editor
Johnathan Thompson, Contributor
David McCargar, Photography Contributor
Heather Ashley, Staff Writer
Special Thanks:
Dr. Carol Martin-Osorio
Evelyn Hadley
Career Services
Robin Jones
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