Kiki has worked in BSU’s Office of Human Resources as a personnel aide since 2010. This spring, she will finish a journey she started nearly three decades ago when she walks across the Sanford Center stage as a college graduate.<\/p>\n
“I have always wanted to finish my education, and decided that it was time,” she said.<\/p>\n
She explored several degree options at BSU before settling on business and accounting, areas that had always interested her.<\/p>\n
“Those degrees are online, and that fit best with my life. I have a family and I volunteer at several things in town, so it was all about balance,” she said.<\/p>\n
Though that effort to balance school against the other priorities in her personal life has been challenging, she’s managed to complete her degree and see a decades-long dream through to its conclusion.<\/p>\n
“I have finally accomplished something I set out to do when I graduated from high school 30 years ago,” she said. “It took a long time and a couple of tries, but I have achieved that goal and I have a degree.”<\/p>\n
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