5 minute read Mary Tunstall shares how she embarked on her graduate degree in data analytics the only way she knew how: By facing it head on, just as she did as a whitewater raft guide in West Virginia. Mary didn’t let intense rapids stand in her way, and she wouldn’t let challenging coursework slow her down either.
3 minute read Tania Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in human development and family sciences online with Oregon State. She is one of the 2,049 Ecampus students who will graduate this weekend — representing 26.8% of all OSU graduates this year (7,648).
5 minute read Encouraging professors and hands-on work helped Samantha Crockett expand her horizons in animal behavior, conservation, ecology and more in Oregon State’s online zoology bachelor’s degree program.
4 minute read Camrie Smith has spent her life dreaming of working with animals. Now, with the help of her Oregon State degree in zoology and the flexibility of online courses through Ecampus, she’s making it happen.
4 minute read Joann Malumaleumu overcame many challenges to earn her bachelor’s degree in human development and family sciences online. Now, as a proud graduate of Oregon State University, she shares insights from her own experience and advice for others who want to finish their degree.
4 minute read Conversation was a core theme of Bobby Disler’s online Oregon State student experience. The commonalities he and his classmates discovered amongst one another helped to bridge the divide, both in terms of actual distance and within their own identities.
4 minute read It’s nighttime in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Mykola Balakin is making a flute-like instrument called a sopilka in his home office. A software engineer by trade and a computer science student with Oregon State Ecampus, he’s new to making instruments, but after several hours of trial and error, he has a breakthrough.
4 minute read John Dusek loves his work and small town Michigan community, but he began to feel like something was missing. “I don’t know if it was a midlife crisis or what,” he says. “But I came to a point where I realized that there was much more potential in horticulture than just producing pretty things for people to look at. So I decided to go back to school.”
3 minute read This year’s team of Ecampus student ambassadors includes Erin Traub, Annmarie Floyd and Bill Watson. They’re from varied locations, ages and backgrounds. So no matter where you’re coming from, we’re sure one of our student ambassadors can help.
3 minute read Growing up as a member of the LGBTQI+ community, Michelle Harris understood the power of organizing from an early age. She credits these early experiences with helping to shape her advocacy and as one pillar in her eventual decision to pursue a degree in women, gender and sexuality studies online with Oregon State.
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