Higher Education

While at Butler University, I had the opportunity to be a Resident Assistant. This gave me experience in working with college students, and eventually led to my employment by UMKC as an Assistant Resident Manager. It was in this position that I finally decided to pursue Higher Education, desiring to research college student development and to eventually become a professor of Higher Education. After a year of pursuing the Master's degree at UMKC, I decided to move to Illinois to pursue a more research-centered degree in Higher Education at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign.

I was awarded a Master's of Education degree in Higher Education in May 2007, and was elevated to the Ph.D. program in the following fall. That is where I currently am, achieving scholarly pursuits and researching college student development. I still compose and play music.