Doctoral Study

Abstract

In the process of retiring – yes, there is retirement for some university professors – I had the opportunity to clean my office of 30 years out of a lot of memories. Such a milestone event causes one to reflect, not only about my career but on the lives of students that I had the opportunity to develop. Being a university professor was probably one of the best decisions I made in my life. Although I had been in higher education for 30 years since completing my degree, it was not my original career path. At the time of my admission into the doctoral program, I had no idea that I would have a 30 year career at a university. My motivation was “why not?” My employer at the time afforded me the opportunity to do graduate work and they paid for it through tuition vouchers. It would have stupid not to take advantage of the oppor?tunity. Because I was working in education at the time and the pay grades for employees rewarded me for additional coursework it made sense to take the course work to obtain my doctorate.