 My name is Sarah Arneson. I'm an Education Director with the Wisconsin Technical College System, and I oversee the business, general education, and transfer programs across the state. I also support the general education deans in the colleges across the system as they develop and implement the Associative Arts and Associative Science programs across the system. I was a high school math teacher for 24 years, and in that time in working with students, I really became aware of the opportunities that the WTCS provides to not only our high school graduates, but also the opportunities that it provides folks who are just entering the workforce. As a child, I had several positive influences in my life, and most of them were teachers, and I really learned from them the importance of education and also the impacts that having an education can make. I'm passionate about what I do because I really believe that education provides people with the foundation to live a great life, to help other people, to positively impact society. It's very rewarding to know that the work that we do has a direct impact not only on the students across our state, but also the communities in which they live, as well as the industries that they work for.