Meet Kim Downer School of Management Alumna

Nurse manager Kim Downer has put her degree to good work, building her career and renovating the emergency room at Lawrence General Hospital. When she started the master's degree program at Cambridge College, Downer was already a mid-level manager. Her title was clinical coordinator of the emergency room."
Downer hadn't yet earned her master's degree when she was promoted — she was still taking courses. Nevertheless, she posits, "I definitely think that being enrolled at Cambridge College at the time I applied for the position put me ahead of the pack. It was looked upon very favorably, both among the groups that interviewed me as well as among the management team."
The Cambridge College classes she was taking allowed her to be successful once she actually stepped into her new role. Literally, she says, "everything I learned Wednesday night, which was class night, I practiced on Thursday. Without that, I'm not sure I would have been as confident about my ability to take on the role, or have been as successful in it."

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