Can You Help Me?

I need your help. Would you do me a huge favor?

My new book, The Confessions of A College Professor: Insider Secrets To Making Top Grades In All Your Classes, was recently finished and is ready for the market.

My aim is to give the book away.

Here’s why.

In this book, I give students who are in college or who are planning to attend college the insider secrets of what they really need to do in order to make top grades in their classes.

What’s so special about that?

I’m a university professor. Have been for over 15 years. That experience has given me the insight of what it takes to make top grades.

I know the mistakes that students unknowingly make that causes them to get lower grades than they expected. I know that most students are simply ignorant about things they must never do if they want to make top grades. I have put those things and much more in this book.

It is really a tell–all-book because the information is known by every professor BUT they will never reveal this information…Except to a few special hand-picked favorite students. Those students usually make the top grades in their classes.

Well, I’ve made these dirty little secrets available to any student who wants the information in this simple and easy to read book, which they can used immediately and see astounding results.

You May Not Know This But…

Many companies give their customers free items: books, irons, tickets to shows, tee shirts, iPods, computers, phones, clothes, etc. This is called a premium. You see and hear about them all the time but may not know how and why they do this.

These “give-a-way” items are given away for a variety of reasons such as:

• An incentive to promote the name of the company
• To produce good will for the company.
• To get people to take action NOW
• To motivate people to buy MORE of something
• To generate more traffic to a website, store or trade show.
• As a promotional tool (a book with a company logo is more memorable than a flyer/business card)
• To raise funds (especially Non-Profits)

I think you get the picture.

Here’s How You Can Help Me

I’m building a list of companies that might be interested in using my book as a premium or “give-a-way” item.

What businesses or companies would you suggest be include on that list? Can you think of 5, 10 or more businesses?

What non-profit organizations would you include? (These are especially incline to provide premiums.)

Give me as many businesses/companies and non-profits as you can think of and don’t limit it to the title or content of the book.

As an example/starter, you might consider what businesses/companies do business with college students?

Here’s My Thank You For Your Help

As a thank you for your contribution, I will send you a free eBook copy of The Confessions of A College Professor.

What is an eBook? It is an electronic copy of the book that you can open and read right on your computer.

When I receive your list of 5 or more suggestions, I will send you the link to get your free copy of the eBook.

Lastly, this offer will be available until February 17th. So get your list of suggestions back to me ASAP.

Thank you for your help.

P. S. By they way, don’t forget to share this blog message with the people on your list. They can help, too.

America Ain’t Post-Racial…!!

The notion that the United States of America has reached the point of being beyond race is incorrect and racist.

With the historic election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States, many people (mostly whites) have jumped to the conclusion that this country is some how now past racism and racial matters. They have termed it post-racial America.

They work from the assumption that since there is a Black man as president elect of the country (whom large numbers of whites voted for) proves that racism has been conquered and vanquished.  All talk about racism and the its nefarious history have now been concretely put to rest. What’s interesting and apparently goes unnoticed about this whole discussion is that it tends to be a discussion by white people.  When Black are invited to the discussion, it’s usually to confirm or validate the white conclusion of a post-racial America.

For example, last night I watch with amusement (MSNBC or CNN), as a panel of three or four white men discussed the “realities” of what they termed as post-racial America.  They gleefully examined the pros and cons of the issue for nearly 15 minutes or so completely oblivious to the fact that there were no black people, brown people or yellow people contributing to the discussion!

And of course it would never have occurred to them that the programming and the sponsors of that program is controlled by white interests just as they were 40 years ago. Neither were they aware of the underlying white privileges bestowed upon them that allows them to engage in such racist behavior and not be challenged from any quarter tantamount to their position of power from Black people or other people of color.

Imagine that.

A group of white people sitting around talking about the ramifications and qualifications of what is supposed to be a post-racial America but having no participants of color included to voice their views on the issue.  Reminds me of the Berlin Conference of 1881 where European countries arbitrarily carved up and parceled Africa off to each other without the invitation, participation or the acknowledgment of any of the African countries.  This was the height of white supremacy and the discussion of a post racial America is posited in the same racist tradition.

Racism remains as entrenched and as alive in America today as it was 40 years ago. While it is true that there have been steps in the right direction, the foundational structure of racism has barely been touched. White supremacy is the order of the country.

Think about this.

Land is the basis of wealth and equality.  Whites people  control more land (which means wealth) in this country today than they did 40 years ago.  They control more than 98% of banks in this country. They control the entire food industry, the educational system, the military, the media and housing.  All of these in varying degrees represents the continued disparity between the races that have yet to be addressed in any meaningful way.

Recall that John McCain’s campaign tried to paint Obama as a “redistributionist?” What that meant and what McCain understood and what white America does not want is a fair distribution of its resources.  That would put everyone on a near par footing and in a country or world where race is use to determine wealth and worth, that is a NO! NO!

This country has not reached a post-racial point and still has a long way to go before it does. Despite the prominent few Blacks that rise to positions of visibility and the whites who help put them there, this country is still sharply divided along racial lines.

A Must Read Book For College Students

A must read for all college students

Whether you are already in college, just entered college, or planning to attend college, most students are looking to make top grades in less time without sacrificing their college social life.

The Confessions of a College Professor: Insider Secrets To Making Top Grades In All Your Classes, the new bestseller from Professor Kamau Kenyatta, is a practical no-nonsense guide that shows students how to reach their college goals of having top grades without getting burned out in the process.

Kenyatta has taken the best ideas, tactics and strategies from his own successful college teaching career (15 years and counting) and distilled them into eight powerful life changing chapters.

Additionally, he reveals what he discovered by trial and error as an undergraduate and graduate student about making top grades.  The result is a treasury of insights that is enjoyable to read and easy to understand and apply.

The answer to what professors really want and what students need to know that parents, counselors and other advisors cannot tell them is all found in the pages of this book. The Confessions of a College Professor exposes what other books leave out.

If you are an undergraduate or graduate student, then this book should be number one on your reading list.

Meet the author and find out how to get this book.

5 Tips To Help College Students Make Top Grades

Do you realize that every year more than 17 million students enter college but only half of them will actually graduate?  Believe it or not, according to the education department, 45% of students who attend college will drop out or fail out.  When these students enter college, they all have high expectations and aspirations of making good grades and graduating.

Every semester I see students make simple mistakes that, unknown to them, jeopardize their grades.  More and more students are dropping out or failing out of college each year because they lack essential information that goes beyond the typical classroom skills.

Here are 5 suggestions from my new book, The Confessions of A College Professor, for students who need and want to make better grades:

1. Go to class the first day. Many students make the mistake of missing the first class because they think it’s a waste of time.  But it is a mistake that will cause many problems throughout the semester. When you miss the first day of class, not only do you miss pertinent information, but you also create a first bad impression.
2. Before you go to class, find out what books or articles the professor has written. Buy a copy of their latest book, or borrow it from the library and take it to class with you on the first day.  If there are no books, find an article by the professor and read it.  This will impress the professor and will show that you have an interest in the material and the professor’s work.
3. Introduce yourself to your professor on the first day and make a comment about their book or article.  Just because you’re familiar with your name do not assume that the professor will know and remember it.  It’s your job to make yourself stand out from the rest of the class, and the first way to do that is to get the professor to associate your face with your name.
4. Schedule a personal appointment with your professor during the first two weeks of school.  Most students wait until there is a crisis in their lives to schedule an appointment with the professor.  Take the initiative and meet with the professor before a crisis.  It helps create credibility and ground the relationship between you and the professor.  During the appointment let the professor know of your interest in the subject, and ask what you can do to receive a top grade from the class.
5. Ask your professor how he or she became interested in the subject matter of the class. Asking this simple question will do more for you than you will ever imagine.  It will make you stand out from everyone else, and it will help that professor remember you.  Ultimately it could work to your advantage in receiving a better grade.  Don’t underestimate the power of this question.

While these tips may seem innocent on the surface, they can make a big difference in the results you receive if you apply them.

Visit www.yourcollegeprofessor.com for more tips on how to make top grades in college.