March Madness has officially begun, but so has voting season! In North Carolina, the primary took place on March 3, and I worked as an election official in a nonpartisan capacity at a precinct in Union County. This was a great way to immerse myself in the election process and get paid! Some of you are probably asking, “What is a primary election?”, and “Do they even matter?” A primary election  is what political parties use to select candidates for a general election. Then each party’s...

At the 2025 Spring Conference there were many discussions regarding childcare, and your executive board heard you. Throughout the 2025-2026 academic year we have been researching, and working with the system office regarding how we can help with this initiative, and what we have found is that this issue is widespread for students, and layered for students of North Carolina Community Colleges. In a childcare focus group done by the N4CSGA in conjunction with the North Carolina Community...

With the fall semester behind us and the spring semester ahead, make this semester great. I will be sharing some tips and tricks to make it your best semester yet. First, find out what your learning style is. According to Southern New Hampshire University, the different learning styles can be broken down into four different categories, which include visual, aural/auditory, read/write, and kinesthetic. If you are a visual learner, you may retain information best through graphics, maps, or...