
Gary Burkholder
Vice President; Senior Research Scholar
Laureate Education
Laureate Education
Vice President; Senior Research Scholar
I teach, mentor, research, and find ways to sustain a culture of evidence and research.
A great day for me is when I accomplish a certain amount of creative or academic writing. I also have meetings during which I work on establishing a research program for my institution. I mentor students who are completing their doctoral research.
Here's the first step for college students
Study what interests you the most. The specific undergraduate degree did not matter to where I am at today. However, my undergraduate degree in engineering was most useful to me in my years as a division officer in the United States Navy. I studied what I enjoyed and used what I studied to meet the shorter-term goals I had at the time.
"You think you are 'too good' for everyone else because you want to go to college."