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Bank branch manager completes 17-year college journey with BASTL degree and 4.0 GPA
Alicia Frederick’s (Enola, Pa.) journey to college graduate began more than 17 years ago with baking and pastry art classes at a school in Rhode Island. The journey will reach a climax on Saturday...
A seat at the corporate table with help from BASTL
After graduating from Reading Senior High School in 2003, Ashley Faulkner held a series of temporary positions before landing a job on the assembly line at a battery manufacturing plant. Working as a...
Administrator gains management skills through BASTL
Robert Madigan was midway through the secondyear of law school when he realized he couldn’t square his notion of right and wrong with the legal profession’s emphasis on tweaking the system to get the...
BASTL prepares for future leadership role
Lori Corden’s educational path took an unexpected turn when she became pregnant while studying electrical engineering at ECPI University in Virginia and returned home to Somerset, Pennsylvania. She...
Bringing more to the table with BASTL skills
It was the mid-1990s and Susan Schultheis' 3-year-old son, Aaron, wanted to learn how to spell so he could play a game on the Compaq computer his uncle had given him, she recalls. "I explained the...
BASTL puts punk rocker on path as financial rep
Toward the end of his first semester at Harrisburg Area Community College in 2009, Nathan Bobb got a call from a friend in the pop-punk band Handguns. Its bass guitar player quit midway through the...
BASTL helps product selector reach for the skies
For almost as long as he can remember, Adam J. Campbell knew he wanted to fly. As he got older, he realized that the job he coveted with a major airline would require a bachelor’s degree as well as...
BASTL helps account manager prove to herself
Nicole Morrissey always felt she was “lacking a bit’’ by not having her degree and was concerned that she would soon hit the ceiling in her career. As an account manager for outside sales at Airgas...
BASTL opens door to new career opportunity
Five years ago, Esteffani Alcantra was living in the Bronx and was a patient outreach manager for a hospital system. She oversaw a team of 12, but the single mother knew that without a degree, chances...
BASTL proves to be right prescription for career advancement
Shawn Silvoy loves working in health care and relishes the challenges of working as the Lehigh Valley Health Network’s liaison between its hospitals and roughly 150 ambulance services. But the 37-year...