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Community for Career Development: A Look Inside One NAVUG Community Member’s Journey

Higher Logic

In 1980, I left high school and began the next chapter of my life as a productive member of the American working class. With a vocational accounting certificate in my hand, I began working as an intern for the company CFO and loved both working and getting paid. From Formal Education to Dedicated Mother. Community was my linchpin.

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How Associations Can Lead on Education

Associations Now

Associations don’t expect our audiences to put their entire lives on hold for multiple years while they attend in-person classes for months at a time.”. So what’s standing in the way? For one thing, a cultural assumption that a secondary degree is the only meaningful path to a decent-paying professional career.

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The Passing of a Great Man - BlogClump

BlogClump

Charles Prep in Columbus, Ohio. If you did something stupid or swore in class, Father would make you do pushups at the front of the room. For me, one of those teachers was Monsignor Thomas Bennett. To many, he was Father Bennett as he acheieved his title of Monsignor while I was in school at St. He taught at St. Charles for 46 years.