鈥淲ith Health Promotion and Wellness, you can go into nonprofit, you can go into for-profit, you can focus on disease prevention, or you can focus on disease maintenance. It's just so broad of a field."
"A lot of students in the program don鈥檛 come from a computer science or informatics background, but through our courses, they acquire the skills necessary to succeed."
Karen LeDoux鈥檚 academic goals sat on the back burner for decades until she found she could use her existing college credits to complete her bachelor鈥檚 degree online. Once she walked through that door, she found new opportunities on the other side.
鈥淵ou鈥檙e going to get as much out of the MBA program as you put into it. If you鈥檙e putting in the bare minimum, you鈥檙e going to get the bare minimum in return. But if you engage and get into the discussion forums and be involved with the people in your classes, you will have a network of people that you鈥檒l be able to connect with even after you finish.鈥
鈥淚 looked to UL Lafayette, and it just so happened that they were starting this online program. I knew I wanted to be more help to other teachers, and this program would give me the best of both worlds. I could still be with my students, but all the practices I was putting in place, I could also share with my peers.鈥
鈥淥nline worked so much better for me, because I can sit in a classroom and not get anything from it. But put me in a curriculum, tell me to go do the work for myself and do the reading, and I can pick up on it. But compared to in-person classes, you have to be a go getter, or it's just not going to come to you.鈥
"One thing I enjoyed about being in systems technology was that I had elective options. The combination of having systems classes that focused on efficiency, while also having business classes that talked about leadership, progress, and employee empowerment will help me a lot throughout my career."
鈥淚 enjoyed it because I could take classes I was interested in. I didn't have a certain curriculum I had to follow to the T. Health always interested in me, so I took a lot of health and psychology classes.鈥