Scholarship: Western Governors University Degree: B.S. in Information Technology - Networks Design & Management Essay: This is the story of how I lost everything I had worked for and of what I decided to do about it. My pursuit of understanding started when I was thirteen years old and the chemical plant where my father worked upgraded their computers. He came home one day with an IBM-XT and a...
Scholarship: Western Governors University Degree: M.S. in Special Education Essay: My name is JeriLyn Morgan Love, and I grew up in a small rural town in Northern Wyoming. After completing high school, I attended the local junior college (Northwest College) earning an Associate’s degree in Business Administration. I then attended a private business college in South Dakota majoring in Court Reporting...
Scholarship: Western Governors University Degree: B.A. in Special Education Essay: Attaining my college degree in Special Education is extremely important to me because I believe teaching is my calling and purpose. Communicating with children and understanding their unique and individual needs are gifts that I have that I really enjoy. I love the challenges that come along with educating them. Children...
Scholarship: Western Governors University Degree: M.S. in Special Education Essay: Getting a degree is important to me because it’s the only way to reach my fullest potential and achieve my career goal as a special needs teacher. Returning to the workplace after seven years opened my eyes and heart to a new career; now it would take classes to open the door to my career path. My personality as...
Scholarship: Western Governors University Degree: B.S. in Nursing Essay: We belong to a club we never asked to join. No one signs up. Others avoid us; we are the ones no one wants to be. There is no way to get out of this club. The rules are difficult to understand. There are tremendous emotional and financial costs. Even if we feel we cannot pay, we have no choice. We are the parents of a child who...
Yesterday, the Empowerment Tour was in Salt Lake City, UT where our friends and one of the eight schools making the tour possible, Western Governors University (WGU), was able to join us. I had a chance to sit down and with Sandra Freeman, Marketing Coordinator, and Dan Bseiso, Strategic Relations Field Representative, from WGU to ask the questions we get asked by you. Here’s what they said:...
