PATRICIA AUMANN
Patricia Aumann is the Director of the South County Education and University Center at St. Louis Community College at Meramec. Since joining the CCM program, her future goals have become both more ambitious and more realistic. She hopes her work experience and her studies will lead to a position as dean. Trish always thought she’d work in student services, but with this program, she has realized that her true talents and interests might lead her in a different direction. They might even lead her to a presidency. At this point she is open to exploring a variety of career options. No matter what level, Trish has come to recognize the fact that she has the qualities it takes to be a true leader.

The Community College Management Program at McGregor is an amazing opportunity. It is a challenging learning experience that will test a student’s assumptions and teach them to think more deeply and carefully
than they ever have before.
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SHELLEY BANNISH
Shelley Bannish is the Director of Student Programs and Athletic Retention at Centralia College in Washington State. Her job involves coordinating student activities on campus, working with student government and the different clubs and organizations, monitoring student-athletes academic progress and providing them with the resources to succeed academically. She has 13 to 14 people reporting to her at one time generally 11 of them are students. She's been working at Centralia for 17 years and wanting to go back for her MA for much of that time. She found herself encouraging her students to go on to complete their master's degrees and realized, as she watched them take her advice, that she should practice what she preached. She will be graduating in March 2006.

I'm learning so much here that I feel like I could move up to Vice President if that's what I chose to do, which I never ever wanted to do or even thought about until I started this program.
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THERESA (TERRI) BOSLETT
Terri Boslett is the Director of Administrative Services, a unique position for a community college. Part controller, part student services, Terri handles a little bit of everything. She oversees a one-stop for student services that encompasses registration, records, financial aid and student accounts and supervises up to 21 individuals in student administrative services. She earned her BA studying evenings at Elmira College. She received her degree in 1991, seven years after she'd begun her studies. She will be graduating in March 2006.

 

The things I'm learning in the Community College Program are relevant. The things I'm learning here are absolutely real world to me.
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JUDITH (Jackie) LONGO, M.A.
Jackie Longo is the Registrar at Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3). Jackie has been working at TC3 since 1989. She decided to go back to school for her MA when her job description began to change. With an MA as a future requirement, she also knew that earning this degree would raise her base pay. The incentives to go back were at first driven solely by the practical, but, as she discovered McGregor and began her studies, she found she was driven by the desire to excel and continued to develop a passion for the field she's chosen. Jackie graduated with the first cohort in June 2005.

The team experience and the residencies really help you be more grounded. You have that commitment to someone besides yourself; you have
that incentive to stay on track.
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