{"id":3184,"date":"2017-05-08T11:40:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/?p=3184"},"modified":"2017-05-08T11:40:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T16:40:29","slug":"spotlight-on-karen-st-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/2017\/05\/08\/spotlight-on-karen-st-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Karen St. John"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>What is your educational background? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BBA in Business Computer Information Systems, UNT cum laude<\/li>\n<li>MS in Information Technology, UNT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3226\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3226\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3226\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_9180-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_9180-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_9180-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_9180-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/IMG_9180-490x327.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3226\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Karen St. John<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What is your work background?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Worked as an Academic Advisor \u2013 ten years both graduate and undergraduate<\/li>\n<li>Computer Audit Specialist training for IRS\/ Treasury department for seven years<\/li>\n<li>Started teaching at the University level in 2009<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What do you teach at ACU?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Information Technology courses: Scripting, Networking, Database Administration<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What committees\/other duties do you have at ACU aside from teaching?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Board member for family business \u2013 Pinecrest Cemetery in East Texas<\/li>\n<li>Wife, married 17 years (18 this May)<\/li>\n<li>Mom to six kids<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3185\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3185\" class=\"wp-image-3185 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/st.-john-family-300x198.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/st.-john-family-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/st.-john-family-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/st.-john-family-768x507.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/st.-john-family-490x323.jpg 490w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/files\/2017\/04\/st.-john-family.jpg 1423w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The St. John Family<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What drew you to teaching? Why did you want to work with students?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have always loved to learn as much as possible.\u00a0 Working with students is enjoyable and rewarding.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What&#8217;s the best part of working with students? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking an intimidating concept, breaking it down and explaining it, and watching students have the \u201clightbulb\u201d moment when it clicks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Have you ever given up any big opportunities to keep working with students? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turned down opportunity to work at a major bank doing anti-money laundering.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Outside of teaching, what passions and hobbies do you have?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love to cook. We live in the country and have chickens, sheep, goats, and cattle.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tell me about a project or accomplishment that you consider to be the most significant in your career.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was recognized by the Treasury department for my contribution and efforts in working with the Regulatory Audit division, which was nice. \u00a0However, I am most proud that I have balanced having a big family with my career.\u00a0 Most of the women I went to school with had to choose one or the other.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Who is your role model, and why?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think my Dad is my biggest role model.\u00a0 He has a strong work ethic, is smart, unselfish and one of the best examples of what a good Christian looks like.\u00a0 His professional career was that of a programmer and database administrator.\u00a0 He has been a song leader at church for as long as I can remember.\u00a0 He has been happily married to my mom for over fifty years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Who was your most inspirational professor and why?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was incredibly fortunate to earn my degree at UNT.\u00a0 I had several professors that taught me important lessons that I try to pass on to my students.\u00a0 Dr. Steve Guynes taught me that the way to look good is to make everyone around you look good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What is something that students might be surprised to find out about you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I learned handwriting analysis for a project in a government class once.\u00a0 And I am colorblind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>What would you really want students and alums to know about you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I feel incredibly blessed to be working at ACU.\u00a0 I love to come to work every day!\u00a0 The students are fantastic.\u00a0 The faculty and staff are wonderful to work with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is your educational background? BBA in Business Computer Information Systems, UNT cum laude MS in Information Technology, UNT &nbsp; &nbsp; What is your work background? Worked as an Academic Advisor \u2013 ten years both graduate and undergraduate Computer Audit Specialist training for IRS\/ Treasury department for seven years Started teaching at the University level [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5020,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[818,2838,6633,2750,6627,2717,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-coba-alumni","category-coba-faculty","category-current-students","category-faith-infusion","category-school-of-information-technology-and-computing","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3184"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3232,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3184\/revisions\/3232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/coba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}