About Us

The College Student Development Center foresees a society where every high school student has the opportunity to learn the life management skills necessary to succeed in college prior to graduating. We define college as any legitimate corporation duly authorized to offer credit-bearing courses of instruction leading to a credential. This includes employers, businesses, non-profit agencies and organizations, the military, career, technical and community colleges, and liberal arts colleges and universities. We define a student as an individual who is engaged in the pursuit of knowledge through independent study or faculty instruction.

The  Center exists to erase the divide between students who feel "better than" or "less than" their peers based on what they choose to do or have the opportunity to do immediately after high school, and to help them realize what they all have in common. That is, when they leave high school and enter society they will be treated like adults and expected to act like adults even though they are still teenagers.

The Center's founder and president, Rozalia Williams earned an Ed.D. in Administration, Planning and Social Policy from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education; and an M.S. in Counselor Education from Florida International University. She has over three decades of experience counseling and educating high school and college students; creating, implementing, and evaluating college student development programs, and teaching first-year experience courses.  Dr. Williams served as an Exchange Scholar at the U.S. Department of Education where she also consulted as a Peer Reviewer. She is the author of the College FAQ Book:  Over 5,000 Not Frequently Asked Questions About College! and a new book titled College Life Management: What's Your A7MQ? She teaches the College Life Skills Course®, implements the GottaDo College® Early Awareness Initiative, and teaches the A7MQ® Life Management method to professional counselors and educators.