We are proud of our graduating seniors for the BIS in Humanities students for spring 2023! We chose to feature a few of our students in the program as the semester ends.
Gladys Ripley
Gladys Ripley will graduate this week in the program and intends to apply to law school in the future. She is especially proud of completing her degree at age 44. Gladys writes of what she learned in the program, “I believe a more thorough understanding of each other helps us to connect realizing we are more alike than we are different.I now have knowledge to support and promote this message in my personal and professional life.” Her favorite class was HUM 373 Nature & Values and she shared that “I was taken to another level of understanding and appreciation for all living things. Although I am an important part of this world, I realize I am a tiny part of a very intricate wheel. I hope to let my light shine as I continue to walk my path attempting to understand and accepts the world as it is.”
Ronald Finley
Ronald Finley will also graduate this week and will join the Master of Liberal Studies program at Arizona State University in fall. The MLS degree integrates the fields of humanities, history, religion, politics, gender and science together. He intends to pursue a Ph.D. in Humanities, Religion or Sociology after completion of his first graduate degree. Like Gladys, Ronald completed his degree later in life and writes “I decided to enter the 90/30 Interdisciplinary Humanities studies transfer program at NAU and found that I enjoyed the online interdisciplinary aspect of the 90/30 BIS Humanities program. If I had known how interesting these subjects were earlier in life, I would have been a better student at Northern Illinois University back in 1982, and would have earned my degree at that time.” He notes that it was difficult to choose just one favorite class and remarked that he especially enjoyed CCS 350W with Dr. Krista Rodin, HUM 490C with Dr. Paul Donnelly, HUM 371, HUM 373, and HUM 351 with Dr. Becky Pratt-Sturges, and HUM 352, HUM 382, and HUM 370 with Dr. Diana Coleman.”