{"id":30902,"date":"2014-06-02T09:40:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=30902"},"modified":"2014-06-02T09:40:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T13:40:33","slug":"programs-offer-second-chance-at-a-different-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/06\/02\/programs-offer-second-chance-at-a-different-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Programs offer second chance at a different career"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29426\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/04\/14\/dental-destiny\/13365-412\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29426\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29426\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-29426\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2014\/04\/13365-412-260x173.jpg\" alt=\"Jun Kyung Ko\" width=\"260\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jun Kyung Ko, an aerospace engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, is finishing a new program that prepares students for professional health science programs.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The health care and social assistance sectors are expected to grow at an annual rate of 2.6 percent, adding 5 million jobs between 2012 and 2022, the BLS reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think a lot of people are going into health professions because there\u2019s security there,\u201d said Jacqui Neal, director of Wright State University\u2019s pre-health program that guides traditional students into health-oriented training and careers.<\/p>\n<p>But Neal also helps older, less traditional students into health fields. Students like Jun-kyung Ko, 27, an Air Force first lieutenant and soon-to-be dentistry student.<\/p>\n<p>The post-baccalaureate program helps those who already have a bachelor\u2019s degree. It matches them with a series of courses needed to be eligible for the right professional or graduate school.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article from the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/business\/programs-offer-second-chance-at-a-different-career\/nf9DL\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dayton Daily News<\/a><\/em> (subscription required).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt The health care and social assistance sectors are expected to grow at an annual rate of 2.6 percent, adding 5 million jobs between 2012 and 2022, the BLS reported. \u201cI think a lot of people are going into health &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/06\/02\/programs-offer-second-chance-at-a-different-career\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":29426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,2109,746,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-veterans","category-pre-health","category-science-mathematics","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30902"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30907,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30902\/revisions\/30907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}