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\"\"Featured student:<\/strong>\u00a0Kristy Cunningham
\nLocation:<\/strong>\u00a0Cookeville, TN
\nEducation:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Bachelor\u2019s in Management Information Systems, MBA from Tennessee Tech, will graduate Spring 2020 with an MSIS<\/p>\n

Career:<\/strong>\u00a0I work at Tennessee Tech, but not in the library. I am the assistant director for the Center for Career Development; I do resume reviews, career fairs, classroom presentations about interviews and resumes, and teach students about Tennessee Tech\u2019s Handshake job database system. There are four of us in the office, for a campus of about 10,000 students, so we stay very busy.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been here 15 years, and this is my third job at Tennessee Tech. I came in as outreach and assessment coordinator for Mechanical Engineering, and then I went to IT and was a systems analyst for the Banner records and registration system. This job came open and I was interested in making a change and it\u2019s been good one. In IT, I love the technical aspects of it, but I missed being around people, and this job is more people. But I\u2019ve been able to use my IT skills here – I\u2019m the liaison between IT any time we buy or bring up new software, or anytime we want new fields or data in our system.<\/p>\n

Before Tennessee Tech, I worked in the management information systems group at Fleetguard, which is now Cummins Filtration. I was a programmer and programmer analyst, and then I was a trainer. I went from really nerdy to helping and teaching people a little bit more, which has been the pattern and it has come back full circle.<\/p>\n

Why did you choose the information sciences? <\/strong><\/p>\n

I had thought about it when I was in IT, and I was actually at a conference for the career center, and they talked about figuring out who you want to serve and how you want to serve them. I really love higher education and feel I\u2019m in the right population of service; but I love helping people get the information they need, and doing research, and doing something different every day. I want to help to make things easy to find, and advertise it, too.<\/p>\n

I came back from the conference in December 2016 and filled out all the paperwork and started at SIS in January 2017. I was actually a bit scared to go back to school, I had earned my MBA in \u201996, and I have a grown daughter. I\u2019m definitely a non-traditional student!<\/p>\n

Why UT?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s in-state, it\u2019s accredited and Tennessee Tech will pay for one class per semester – that\u2019s why I\u2019ve been on the slow boat! It\u2019s affordable, and I looked at the program and liked the classes offered. Actually, there are classes I\u2019d like to continue taking \u2013 maybe in the future, I won\u2019t rule that out. I love to learn.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t really follow one of the pathways, I kind of did the \u201cOh, that looks interesting!\u201d pathway. I did a project in collection development with the archives at Tennessee Tech and loved it. I talked about taking a practicum, and then I did a practicum, as well, this past summer. Because I work full-time, I basically burned a lot of vacation days – I worked over there half a day and came over here a half day. If people can do a practicum, I highly recommend it.<\/p>\n

How has your experience been?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I love the program, I like to learn. It\u2019s online and I had taken an online class several years ago, but I like the synchronous classes. You\u2019re in class, you can ask questions of the teacher and interact with the other students and you don\u2019t have that with asynchronous, which was a disaster when I tried that years ago. That\u2019s the other thing that made UT exciting.<\/p>\n

The faculty have been great, when I had questions, they\u2019d get back to me quickly and discuss with me the issues I had been having. Everyone has been very helpful and approachable. UT is a huge school, and I thought it would be impersonal, but it hasn\u2019t been that way at all. Overall it\u2019s been a great experience.<\/p>\n

What’s next?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019d like to go into academic libraries, but I would not turn down an archives position, either, since I have at least a little experience with that and liked it. I\u2019m at a place in my life where I could move, so I would be willing to do that for the right job!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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