The Urbana High School eight-page newspaper that came out May 5 had an article about where former UHS students have gone to college and where seniors are planning on going. Working on that article got us thinking- where have teachers at UHS gone? A lot of the results we got were similar- since there are so many quality schools around Urbana, like the University of Illinois, Eastern Illinois University, and Illinois State University.
1) “Moody Bible Institute because it was a Christian college, it was 2,000 miles from home (I was ready to stretch my wings), and it was tuition free! A couple years after graduating I decided to become a teacher, so I went back to school. I started at DePaul University, then transferred down to the U of I,” said English Teacher Tami Bajema.
2) “I went to Northern Illinois University because the girl I was in love with was taking classes there,” said Social Studies Teacher Jeff Davis.
3) “I attended Lincoln Christian College because it had a well known transfer program for education and it had a good basis for my faith,” said English Teacher Erin Ludwick.
4) “I went to Millikin University in Decatur, IL. I chose that school based on it’s availability of technology and small class sizes,” said Social Studies Teacher Charles Trabaris.
5) “I graduated from Eastern Illinois University. I began college at the University of Illinois (majoring in Engineering), but ended up transferring to EIU because I wanted to be able to teach following graduation,” said Math Teacher Nick Stillwell.
6) “I went to Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas. I went there because
the tuition was only $50 per semester, no matter how many hours you took.
It was fairly close to home and I went to college during the heyday of women’s liberation, hence a woman’s university,” said Math Teacher Glenna Rogers.
7) “I went to Illinois Wesleyan University. My choice to go there was based on a combination of its academics and athletics: I wanted an academically challenging school that would also give me the opportunity to continue my soccer career on a competitive level,” said Math Teacher Caroline Leighton.
8) “I went to Buffalo State College in Buffalo, New York. I chose that school was because it was well known for its education, I had looked into it a few years prior to attending for the purpose of playing football. Ironically, after attending a two year college, I ended up attending BSC and playing football,” said SPED Teacher Donald Mayr.
9) “The first college I attended was at Augustana College. I wanted a school that was similar in size as my high school (about 2,000-3,000 students) and located in Illinois. I liked the idea of smaller classes and it had a good English education degree program and great extra-curricular music programs. My junior year I changed my major to pursue a degree in music business management and switched schools to Columbia College in Chicago. Several years afterwards I went back to school for my Master’s degree in Education at DePaul University, which has brought me to Urbana High School!” said Business Teacher Kristen Bartholomew.
10) “University of Arkansas, they had a great Deaf Education program,” said Special Education Teacher Christine Creek.
11) “The university that I attended immediately after high school was Southern Illinois University of Carbondale. I choose SIU because I had attended their baseball camp all four years of high school and loved the campus and surrounding areas. I wanted to be an Architect at the time and they had a descent Architecture program. GO DAWGS!” said Assistant Principal Travis Courson.
12) “I attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign because I wanted a college experience very different from my high school experience. I was raised in a small town west of Peoria, Illinois, population 2100 people and a graduating class of around 100. All of the students were raised in similar environments: lower/middle class, white, Christian, etc. I wanted to “get out” of the small town small mind scenario. I came to Urbana in the fall of 1996, and I’ve never left…” said Dean Angi Franklin.
13) “University of Illinois because it was my dream. I never wanted to go anywhere else,”
http://www.uscollegesearch.org/blog/category/college-admission
