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Born and raised on a university campus, Florida native Henry W. admits to being "extraordinarily privileged to have been around the best and brightest" his entire life. To this day, Henry has a deep appreciation for knowledge and intellectual curiosity.
Name: Henry White
Age: 58
Career Interests: Business
Current Location: Florida
Advice to Online Students: "If you don't have the motivation and self-discipline to take on this enormous responsibility, forget about distance learning entirely!"
School: Western Governors University
Target: B.S. in Business Administration, 2008
Henry started his professional journey after graduating from high school in 1966, when the Navy decided he was good prospect for a security clearance and computer work. When his enlistment was up, he took advantage of the GI Bill to continue his education in a two-year course in industrial electronics. From there Henry worked for several NASA and Department of Defense contractors, steadily moving up the corporate ladder as far as he could without a college degree. At the ripe old age of 48, he was ready (and financially able) to retire.
Says 58-year-old Henry, "For the past decade I’ve been heavily involved with Linux, GNU, and free and open source software." More recently, Henry has conducted corporate training and taught a number of introductory college courses without the need of a college degree.
"I wanted to go back to college, but not sit through dull, boring lectures by disinterested professors or teaching assistants." After he made the decision to earn a degree in business, Henry evaluated and compared different programs amongst several schools. He made his decision to study at Western Governors University.
"Going back to college would have been completely out of the question without the competency-based model at WGU." Henry expects to graduate with a Bachelor of Science in business administration in July of 2008 and fully intends to continue on to the MBA.
"As much as I would like to go on to a Ph.D., that part is still up in the air."
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