Meet Dr. Juandrea Bates, Associate Professor of History and Legal Studies at Winona State University. She created a class for WSU students to learn how age has shaped children’s perspectives throughout history. And in the process, her class inspired her to pursue and...
Meet Dr. Steven Baule, an associate professor in the Leadership Education Department at Winona State University. He helped identify a growing need for special education directors in K-12 schools around the nation—and created a new program at Winona State to meet this...
If you want to make things, break things, and figure out how to improve them, you could turn that drive into a career as a composites engineer. I became a professor of Composite Materials Engineering because it’s still a relatively new field and there are so many...
If you like understanding how the law intersects with real life, you could foster that interest into a career as a law enforcement or corrections officer or any of the many personnel in the Criminal Justice system. After being a prosecuting attorney for 11 years, I...
If you enjoy studying how everything around us is connected and how living things run, you could harness those passions into a career as a chemist. I think the most meaningful connections a student can make during their college career come from watching their...
If you like to people-watch and understand individuals’ stories and roles in society, you could foster those interests into a career as a sociologist. I went to college thinking I’d become a high school math teacher, but an introductory sociology course instantly...
