Alumni Return to Serve

With homecoming festivities underway and everyone excited for the big game, Winston Salem State University (WSSU) students engage as alumni to spread wise words of wisdom amongst the campus. Eight WSSU alumni have come back to the institution specifically to enlighten young individuals on finding their careers, when to take job opportunities and use the resources that they have around them for the better. 

Orlando Mitchell, Director over University Student Engagement and Activity board stated, “It does not have to be money given back but your time is also a treasure, and I think with giving them time it helps with retention and helps them to see themselves.” 

 The current test engineer, Tiffany Richmond, elaborates on being a part of the WSSU community, saying that it truly felt like family. She talks about how professors came and knocked on doors and checked to make sure she was in class, changing the “standards” for how she viewed educational professors. “It's important to know that you guys want us to talk to you, want us to give you advice, want us to, you know, show you what we know because the desire on our part is already there.  

We just need to know that you guys will go from there. WSSU Senior, Jayla Baker, states alumni provide a lot of insight that we just don't get in class. Understanding that not everyone is under the same career path, she makes a strong statement claiming “in your field, not in your field, just around. Because everybody has life skills that you can gain no matter the major.”