5 /5 Edgar Harris: Park University was the right school at the right time for me. Although I graduated way back in 1998, and this posting may be a bit late, I feel I need to give feedback from a graduate’s point of view at 20 years past.
I found the business classes very effective for my entrepreneurial goals. Once I retired from the USMC in May of 2001, I went right to work for myself. I started Harris Coastal Properties (as a CA Real Estate Broker) in Oceanside, CA and I’m still here to this date running that business. My wife and I then opened a Postal Annex in this same community and have been operating it since 2003. I feel my B.S. Degree in Management at Park University more than prepared me for the “real world” of business ownership.
I have in the past hosted several Park University business classes “Field Days” at our local Postal Annex store out on HWY 76 & College Blvd between Walmart and Von’s, closer to Starbucks and Von’s. These classes included: Marketing, Management, ect.... Sometimes a professor would even come out and do a Senior Seminar class as a Field Day” at the Postal Annex. I enjoyed going over the different profit centers and tying in certain aspects of my business into that classe’s subject matter. The students mentioned several times thereafter that “seeing the real thing out in town really hit home and closed the loop with that particular class”.
Thank you Park University for being in the right place at the right time in my life. Your curriculum roused my interest and prepared me to open several businesses since my graduation back in 1998. Keep up the awesome work for our active duty members, the civilians and their families.
Edgar A. Harris
MSgt USMC retired