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(Special to The Independent News)
\n Debbie Jones, 52, comes home a little bit later on Thursday nights. After working all day in management at Laclede Gas Company, she gets together with her study team to work on their latest class project.<\/p>\n

Jones works full time, is a wife, mother of three, grandmother of seven and an MBA student at Fontbonne University OPTIONS. <\/p>\n

“I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not doing this for my job,” says the Blackjack resident. “I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just doing this for myself, for my own sense of accomplishment.”<\/p>\n

Jones started college right out of high school, but was soon married and had a child. She tried to go back a few times, but it never worked out as her family and responsibilities grew. In May 2005, she enrolled in the BBA program at the North County OPTIONS facility. <\/p>\n

“I knew when I started with the bachelor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s degree that I would keep going toward the MBA,” says Jones. “While you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got that momentum, you might as well keep going.”<\/p>\n

With her children and grandchildren in attendance, Debbie graduated in May 2007. Just a month or so later, she was enrolled in the first Fontbonne OPTIONS MBA group offered at the new North County site located in Paddock Hills Plaza Shopping Center in Florissant.<\/p>\n

Jones says the MBA courses are tougher than the undergraduate work, but she really likes all of the practical application.<\/p>\n

“The coursework is practical, right here, right now kind of work,” she says.<\/p>\n

Jones may be the oldest student in her class, but doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind.<\/p>\n

“I find it rather interesting. I get a different level of respect, and in many situations, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been able to give real life examples of what we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re learning in class,” she says. “But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also drawn so much from my younger classmates. I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s helped me better understand my younger colleagues at work.”<\/p>\n

Jones says she would definitely encourage other adults, no matter what their age, to find out more about the OPTIONS programs.<\/p>\n

“At Fontbonne, they made it possible,” she says. “You knew it was something that you could really do\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve made lifelong friends.”<\/p>\n

Jones anticipates graduating with an MBA in August of 2009, and knows that retirement could happen soon after that.<\/p>\n

“I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure what I will do. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d love to open up a frozen custard place, and I could see myself running an office for my daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s medical practice. Having the degrees from Fontbonne will give me more choices about what I want to do.”<\/p>\n

With its main campus located in Clayton, the university has also established OPTIONS classroom sites in South County, Chesterfield and downtown St. Louis.
\n OPTIONS is designed specifically to accommodate the needs of busy, working adults with convenient and accelerated undergraduate and graduate degree programs.<\/p>\n

For more information, call 314-863-2220 or visit www.fontbonne.edu\/options.
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