{"id":4660,"date":"2010-04-12T08:00:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2017-06-22T11:15:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T16:15:10","slug":"from-comfort-to-college-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2010\/04\/12\/from-comfort-to-college-part-three\/","title":{"rendered":"From comfort to college: Part three"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>After 13 years at the General Motors plant in Moraine, Debbie Bradley is putting her future into the next gear.<\/p>\n

When the assembly plant was shut down in December 2008, Bradley had already begun planning ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way GM was going, I started looking at plan B just in case,\u201d she said. \u201cI came (to Sinclair) and got everything lined up.\u201d<\/p>\n

When Bradley accepted a buyout from GM in July 2009, Bradley, 36, was already enrolled at Sinclair in hopes of finishing with an associate\u2019s degree in Nursing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew as soon as I took the buy-out that (Sinclair) is what I wanted to do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

After waiting more than a year, Bradley, who now works at Good Samaritan Hospital as a patient care technician, started the Nursing program this quarter thanks to the Accelerated Admission for Academic Achievement program.<\/p>\n

The AAAA program was \u201cdeveloped to encourage students to be highly successful in core courses and reward these students for academic excellence by allowing accelerated entrance into Life and Health Sciences programs,\u201d according to www.sinclair.edu. The Web site said the Nursing program is allowed to admit up to 25 percent of entering students each quarter based on academics instead of placement on the eligibility list.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe medical field is something I\u2019ve always wanted to be in and I\u2019ve always wanted to go back to school,\u201d Bradley said. \u201cI was just never able to fit it into my schedule when I was working.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sinclair President Steven Johnson said the college offers a comfortable environment for displaced workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very difficult for these students, but they do well,\u201d he said. \u201cSometimes they feel like they are out of place or are afraid they will be out of place, but they come here and they realize that they are not. The adults are the ones that blow the curve because they are such good students.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradley, who drove a fork lift during the majority of her time at GM, said the biggest difference she has noticed since becoming a student are the lack of days off.<\/p>\n

\u201cYour days off are just not your own,\u201d she said. \u201cEven when you\u2019re not (on campus), you are dedicating your time to studying. It\u2019s tough to keep up with family and I\u2019m working now, too. Trying to balance it all and keep my grades up has definitely been a challenge.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bradley said she isn\u2019t making half of what she previously earned at GM and she isn\u2019t receiving any financial aid because she accepted the buy out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is nearly impossible to receive financial aid, but Good Samaritan (Hospital) is helping,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Bradley wouldn\u2019t say if the buy out from GM was a blessing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lost a lot financially,\u201d Bradley said, \u201cbut this is what I always wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After 13 years at the General Motors plant in Moraine, Debbie Bradley is putting her future into the next gear. When the assembly plant was shut down in December 2008, Bradley had already begun planning ahead. \u201cThe way GM was going, I started looking at plan B just in case,\u201d she said. \u201cI came (to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[94,217,320,1272,1078,1022,103,14],"class_list":["post-4660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-college","tag-community","tag-general","tag-joseph-stueve","tag-moraine","tag-motors","tag-nursing","tag-sinclair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-1da","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4709,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/4709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}