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JESSICA TAYLOR ADMITS TO BEING AN AGE WHEN MOST PEOPLE DON’T USUALLY START THEIR FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE. 18
B UIL D A LIF E THAT MATTERS
But this grandmother with a wealth of experience and juggling two jobs did just that… receiving both her B.S. in business administration (2006) and her MBA (2008) from Cornerstone University via its satellite campus in Troy, Mich. “I was looking for colleges when somebody told me about Cornerstone,” said Taylor, who lives in Midtown Detroit. “It fit my lifestyle and was what I needed as far as class structure, and, it is a Christian school.” Taylor attended CU – first at the Detroit satellite campus and then at the Troy campus – while working full time as Director of Training and Senior Consultant for T.J. Adams & Associates, a full-service human resources firm based in Detroit. She also worked as an executive director of Chance for Life Organization, a nonprofit that provides prisoners with longterm life training skills. She had earned a secretarial degree and had cosmetology training but realized she needed a business degree when she began working for T.J. Adams. “I was always self-conscious about not having a degree; I just made up my mind to go back to school. It was a challenge, but it worked out because I was determined to do it,” she said.