ST. THOMAS ALUMNAE WHO CLIMBED PAST THE BROKEN RUNG OFFER ADVICE FOR GETTING AHEAD When Karen Julian, who was raised in Lakeville, Minnesota, first set foot on the St. Thomas campus in 1989 as a first-generation college student, she knew she wanted to pursue a career that incorporated her interests in business, finance and technology. So, she majored in business with a concentration in finance. She also minored in quantitative methods and computer science. In her junior year, she secured a job at St. Thomas as a computer programmer in the Financial Aid Office. “There were very few of us,” she said about the number of student workers and full-time staffers in computer programming roles at the university at that time.
By SHEREE R. CURRY
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