February 2011, Issue 15

In lieu of a new season beginning at Tennessee State University, we'd like to welcome Dr. Portia Holmes Shields, former president of Albany State University in Albany, Georgia as the new interim president effective January 2, 2011.

Dr. Shields became president of Albany State University in July 1996. She served in that capacity for eight years, retiring in June 2005. As the seventh president of the 101-year-old university, Dr. Shields inherited a campus recovering from a flood that consumed nearly two-thirds of the 204-acre campus

As a parent of a college student, you want nothing more than for them to be focused on a career path. Most high school students don't have a clue where to begin when deciding on a profession as well as even many freshman and sophomores in college. Many times those paths change as the coursework intensifies and passions/ambitions begin to take hold in their lives.