The passion for Higher Education began during my years as an undergraduate student who worked part-time in the Office of Admissions. As I answered the phone for a many of students and parents, I realized that the information that they always needed, they never had. My degree from the 4-year institution that is now my employer is a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications. While I may not be using all of the skills learned while obtaining my degree I am still able to create my own visions for media within my position. There is no certain degree program that prepares you for Higher Education, but I think that is what makes it special when you put together staff members on a team because everyone can have so many ideas and plans that can work with each other.
Influences
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We used to sit and often have talks about his Admissions career got started and he moved into Higher Education and that is somewhat the spark of it all. He also encouraged us to always learn as much as you can because you never know when you’ll need to use I used to wake up excited to go to work all the time and was elated when a class was canceled so that I could go in. I began to learn the full application process within our Admissions Office. I was then granted access to explain student decisions and even sent on some recruitment events with and without a recruiter because I was so knowledgeable of all the information. As I began to do it more and more, I even surrounded my Senior Project around the admissions’ process and that was when it triggered that it may be a good fit for me. I was granted the opportunity to work over the course of my junior and senior year and was then offered a temporary position directly after