{"id":28127,"date":"2017-05-05T16:57:03","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=28127"},"modified":"2017-05-05T16:57:03","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T21:57:03","slug":"bemidji-pioneer-bsu-graduation-alicia-is-all-business-bsu-grad-has-turned-a-passion-into-a-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2017\/05\/05\/bemidji-pioneer-bsu-graduation-alicia-is-all-business-bsu-grad-has-turned-a-passion-into-a-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Bemidji Pioneer: Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ GRADUATION: Alicia is all business: Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ grad has turned a passion into a profession"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BEMIDJI — Alicia Christenson always planned to go to college, but it took her a few years to get there.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Born and raised in Bemidji, Christenson is a non-traditional student who will be the first in her family to get a bachelor’s degree at Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s commencement today. She’s already got a pair of two-year degrees from Northwest Technical College and plans to study for an MBA at the university and — fingers crossed — get a PhD so she can teach business and accounting classes there.<\/p>\n

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“I’m ambitious,” Christenson said with a chuckle. She also works at the school’s Memorial Hall.<\/p>\n

Christenson graduated from Bemidji High School in 1997 and worked a series of retail jobs over the next several years, but said she’s dreamed of being a teacher since she was four years old.<\/p>\n

“It just always kept going in the back of my mind: you wanted to teach, why aren’t we doing this?” she remembered. Christenson said she tries to be a good example for her three kids and wanted to get her bachelor’s degree before they start college. She hopes to teach at NTC while she works on her doctorate.<\/p>\n

“I like the whole dynamic of the university and professors,” Christenson said.<\/p>\n

She said likes seeing a student light up when they understand new material. “It’s just amazing…Yes, you could probably get that at a lower grade level, but here, I think, is where I feel more at home.”<\/p>\n

Christenson said she loves everything about business itself, and said experience and knowledge in that field is in high demand — and that’s not likely to change anytime soon.<\/p>\n

“To be able to teach somebody about that, and the accounting side the business side to make it grow is never a bad thing,” she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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