Näleg is Power!
Unlimited access to knowledge offers unlimited potential.
Näleg Academic enables engagement between those with questions (students) and those with experience (alumni), helping students begin their journey from indecision to informed passion.
Unlimited access to knowledge offers unlimited potential.
Näleg Academic enables engagement between those with questions (students) and those with experience (alumni), helping students begin their journey from indecision to informed passion.
Why Näleg Academic?
For college students, seeking to understand the “real world” and make important career decisions can be an intimidating task.
- Of graduates, less than 40% make it in four years; 60% graduate in 6 years, creating significant economic pressure on the student.
- 80% of students change majors at least once. Average is three times in a college career. Uncertainty drives student cost and stress.
- University counselors are often limited by capacity and depth and breadth of insight. They simply don't have the experience.
- Advisory networks frequently consist only of family, friends and acquaintances. Access is the issue!
- Universities are under pressure to improve graduation rates and placement outcomes. Everyone's feeling the squeeze.
What is Näleg Academic?
It’s a Näleg (knowledge) Exchange where “requesters” (students) find “providers” (alumni) willing to transfer their knowledge and insights. And it all happens in a virtual, privacy protected environment, on phones, laptops or tablets. No sketchy meetings with strangers, travel to unknown areas or worries about harassing follow-up calls. Just a one-to-one, heart-to-heart, conversation about careers, experiences and passions.
Näleg allows students to engage with alumni professionals to discuss career or function specifics, personal fit, career path, or any relevant topic the alumni and student agree upon, with all the benefits of being face-to-face, but without all the stress and concerns.
How does it work?
What's in it for me?
Students gain critical insights, career decision support and confidence from sincere, experienced alumni professionals.
Alumni professionals take pride in “giving back” and sharing their knowledge, helping to guide and support tomorrow's workforce.
The university gains support toward enhanced performance metrics, a deeper relationship with alumni and greater university appeal to future students.
Alumni professionals take pride in “giving back” and sharing their knowledge, helping to guide and support tomorrow's workforce.
The university gains support toward enhanced performance metrics, a deeper relationship with alumni and greater university appeal to future students.
"Knowledge Counts is opening opportunities for my fluid interaction within the Clark Atlanta University Alumni community"
The CAU Paws to Claws program is a unique program, bringing together students (paws) and alumni (claws). It gives students the opportunity to hone their networking skills as they mingle and introduce themselves to alumni. Alumni are able to share from their rich experiences things that will benefit students as they navigate critical career choices.
Näleg Academic will enhance this program by providing students with virtual face-to-face engagement with CAU alumni throughout the nation and around he world.
Ms. Jasho's leadership with Paws to Claws makes her indispensable in helping Näleg Academic refine it's approach to student and alumni engagement. Clark Atlanta University is a showcase, to other HBCUs and universities, for how existing alumni engagement programs can be enhanced with Näleg Academic.
Näleg Academic will enhance this program by providing students with virtual face-to-face engagement with CAU alumni throughout the nation and around he world.
Ms. Jasho's leadership with Paws to Claws makes her indispensable in helping Näleg Academic refine it's approach to student and alumni engagement. Clark Atlanta University is a showcase, to other HBCUs and universities, for how existing alumni engagement programs can be enhanced with Näleg Academic.
Our core beliefs
- Knowledge and trust are top-level currencies in a new world economy, driven by fundamental human behavior and expansive social network engagement.
- Facilitated collaboration is the next evolution of relationship-based networks.
- Enabling the transfer of knowledge has tremendous opportunity and provides great value to individuals, teams, organizations and society.
The collaborative revolution has begun!
New enterprises are putting latent resources to work, sharing cars and homes, space and time. Rachel Botsman talks about collaborative consumption as “the reinvention of traditional market behaviors – renting, lending, swapping, sharing, bartering, gifting – through technology”. We’re becoming a sharing economy, where a variety of resources are creating new businesses and currencies.
Knowledge is the ultimate currency, deserving of a prominent space within this revolution. Knowledge can also be efficiently shared and has immense value to those with specific needs or interests.
In many areas today, you’re no longer recognized simply by the information or knowledge you hold. What matters more is how you share that knowledge and collaborate to provide guidance, identify solutions, drive innovation and achieve goals. Näleg provides that capability.
Knowledge is the ultimate currency, deserving of a prominent space within this revolution. Knowledge can also be efficiently shared and has immense value to those with specific needs or interests.
In many areas today, you’re no longer recognized simply by the information or knowledge you hold. What matters more is how you share that knowledge and collaborate to provide guidance, identify solutions, drive innovation and achieve goals. Näleg provides that capability.
Why knowledge sharing?
Humans are social beings. Our brains are wired to engage with others. Social psychologists and scientists have uncovered the neuroscience of human connections. As Matthew Lieberman states, “We may not like the fact that we are wired such that our well-being depends on our connections with others, but the facts are the facts.”
From the beginning of humankind, knowledge has been shared by person-to-person exchange of insights; not by simply transferring static information etched into a rock, but by verbally providing the full context and texture needed to fully communicate the information necessary to thrive or stay alive.
Finally, brain-scanning technology reveals that we enjoy helping others. The brain is also wired for generosity. This indicates that collaborating and sharing knowledge is not only natural, but is a powerful social and organizational enabler.
From the beginning of humankind, knowledge has been shared by person-to-person exchange of insights; not by simply transferring static information etched into a rock, but by verbally providing the full context and texture needed to fully communicate the information necessary to thrive or stay alive.
Finally, brain-scanning technology reveals that we enjoy helping others. The brain is also wired for generosity. This indicates that collaborating and sharing knowledge is not only natural, but is a powerful social and organizational enabler.
Why Näleg Was Created?
Näleg at its core is designed to do one simple thing – connect someone with a question to someone with an informed answer. In the process of face-to-face engagement there is the opportunity to truly share at a deep level. It is this sharing that makes engagement so powerful. We are often limited by what our closest advisers know. But now, with Näleg, students have the opportunity to access many more advisers, people difficult to access without this platform.
What does it cost?
Näleg Academic is free to students and alumni. The service is underwritten by investors and sponsors who believe that this is the best resource to help the next generation of professionals.
Are my sessions private?
Face-to-face engagement sessions are completely private. We do not access or share discussions between parties on the platform. All social engagement platforms are based on trust. Our policy is to keep session conversations private so that people are free to share without worrying about how that information might be shared. This is a core principal of our platform.
How is this different from LinkedIn?
LinkedIn allows professionals to build and manage a network of connections. Naleg enables students to find, connect and engage with professionals for the specific purpose of gaining insights and knowledge, so that students can determine or confirm their career path and understand all the opportunities available to fulfill their passions in the professional world.
Is this like Skype or FaceTime?
Only in that Naleg can facilitate a video engagement between students and professionals, if that's how you chose to connect. The video engagement is done by (x technology) ...