Question of the Week: What’s your Favorite Season?

Welcome to this week’s installment of the Sheffield Says Question of the Week. Each week we’ll ask readers a question pertinent to being creative, earning a living, do-it-yourself projects, and much, much more. We’re excited to hear what you have to say!

Last week’s question was, are you running your own business?

This week, we want to know what your favorite season is. With last week’s official start of Spring, the weather’s getting warmer, the smiles are getting bigger, and the colors are getting brighter! It’s a good time of year. But is it the best?

Share your answer below, and don’t be afraid to use the comments to tell us why you’re interested in that field!

What's your favorite season?
	Spring
	Summer
	Fall
	Winter
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Catch you next week. Same time, same place.

The Sheffield School Launches a New Student Benefits Program

Most Fridays I’m excited to bring you our Sheffield Says Question of the Week. But this week, we have a special announcement that supersedes the QotW.

The Sheffield School has launched a student benefits kit for the thousands of creative professionals around the world who enroll in our home-study programs each year.

The Sheffield School has a long tradition of delivering high quality courses in the areas of Interior Design, Wedding & Event Planning, and Jewelry Design to people anywhere in the world. Serving over 10,000 active students in over 100 countries, it can be difficult to provide deals and discounts to everyone. However, with the launch of this new student benefits program, students all over the world will be able to enjoy discounts from retailers and service providers that also reach a global audience.

New York’s premier home-study school is partnering with Collegiate Services, Inc., based in Chicago, IL. Collegiate Services provides one of the largest and longest running discount programs in the North America, serving over 100 schools in the US alone. Through this program, students in any of Sheffield's programs will be able to save on purchases from companies like Verizon, Best Buy, and Walmart.

 “We’ve always tried to do right by our students,” said Chuck DeLaney, Director of the Sheffield School, “and when we had an opportunity to offer our home-study students discounts on products they need, we jumped at the chance.”

For more information about Sheffield School’s Student Benefits Program, visit http://www.sheffield.edu/studentcenter/ or contact the school at 800-445-7279.

And we’ll be back next week to bring you a new Question of the Week!

Sheffield School Celebrates National Pi Day

Sheffield School staff don't really need an elaborate excuse to celebrate. Our Student Services representative Rodney Smith found out that today was Pi Day - celebrated by math enthusiasts around the world - and he decided to share the day's goodness with his co-workers by baking three ... Pi pies. Rodney is now the official Sheffield School Pie Man. He and the rest of the Sheffield School staff wish you and yours a very happy Pi Day, too, as we all enjoy our sugary buzz.

If you're interested in learning more about the home of Rodney's fabulous Pi pies, then I encourage you to explore the Sheffield School, New York, NY. Sheffield began as an Interior Design school in 1985, and then expanded our course offerings to train people in other design-related fields, including Feng Shui, Wedding and Event Planning, and Jewelry Design. With thousands of active students and more than 50,000 graduates, Sheffield has trained more design professionals than any school in the world.

• Request a free Sheffield School catalog describing our distance education courses.
• Subscribe to the Sheffield Designer newsletter.

Question of the Week: What Field of Study Are You Into?

Welcome to this week’s installment of the Sheffield Says Question of the Week. Each week we’ll ask readers a question pertinent to being creative, earning a living, do-it-yourself projects, and much, much more. We’re excited to hear what you have to say!

Last week’s question was simple. Do you use Pinterest?

This week, we want to know what field of study you are most interested in. As some of you may know, the Sheffield School prides itself on the quality of our courses. And those courses cover a variety of subjects.

We know that not all of our blog readers are students, so we would like to know which field you’re most interested in. Share your answer below, and don’t be afraid to use the comments to tell us why you’re interested in that field!

What Sheffield School Field of Study Interests You the Most?
	Interior Design
	Wedding and Event Planning
	Jewelry Design
	Feng Shui
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Catch you next week. Same time, same place.

We Remember Ten Years Ago: September 11, 2001

By Chuck DeLaney - On Tuesday morning, September 11, 2001, I was the Sheffield staff member closest to the Twin Towers. There was a roaring noise, and then the shadow of American Airlines Flight 11, hijacked shortly after leaving Boston’s Logan Airport, darkened the schoolyard at P.S. 234 where I was standing just three short blocks north of the Trade Center. A split second later, the doomed Flight 11 plowed into the north face of the North Tower of the World Trade Center. That moment, and the hours that followed, began a challenging time the country, the world, and for our Sheffield staff and faculty.

I was in the schoolyard because it was my daughter’s third day of kindergarten. It’s a story for another time, but my family was fine although we were out of our home for over a month. Fortunately, no members of our staff or their families were hurt in the attack. Our receptionist’s mother, who worked at a large corporation headquartered in the Trade Center which lost over 100 employees, didn't go in to work that day. The son of one of our registrar staff spent the day driving injured and ash-covered people to the nearest hospital.

Collectively in the days that followed, the entire New York region worked through the shock of the attack. Transportation was disrupted. Downtown resembled a war zone. Subways skipped stops near the Trade Center. Impromptu memorials sprang up around the city, particularly at firehouses. People who lived near the World Trade Center site were forced to leave their homes for weeks. Since Sheffield teaches by distance education, the Anthrax threat that followed on the heels of the 9/11 attacks became a very serious problem. Some students expressed concern about receiving packages from the School, and some of our staff voiced concern about the incoming mail. I personally felt the danger of Anthrax contamination was low, but in order to allay the concerns we took some specific steps. We sent out letters to all students explaining that all our packages and correspondence were prepared by our staff in our offices and warehouse and taken by us directly to the post office. To handle incoming mail, I and another staff member who volunteered for the task put on surgical masks, rubber gloves, and scrutinized each piece of mail in the most remote corner of our office. We surrounded ourselves with various protective washes, a fire extinguisher, and other safety paraphernalia. My feeling was that if it would make the Sheffield staff feel safer, I’d open the mail wearing a clown suit.

I’m very proud of the way our staff and faculty kept focused on our mission in the weeks and months after the attacks. Perhaps even more interesting was the seriousness of purpose that we observed in students – many applied themselves to their coursework with a new level of determination. This didn’t surprise me because great tragedy often inspires people to express themselves through their creativity.

As I stood at the back of the PS 234 schoolyard and looked at the angry, fire-orange hole near the top of 1 World Trade Center seconds after Flight 11 struck it, it was apparent this was an historic event, even before the subsequent horror of the remainder of that bright blue, crisp autumn morning.

Chuck DeLaney is the Director of the Sheffield School.