About the Author After having refused an opportunity to go to medical school at MUSC in Charleston, South Carolina leading to a profession in Psychiatry, in 1974, I decided to learn how to run the Student Affairs part of a university. I applied for a M.Ed. in Student Personnel Services at the University of South Carolina in Columbia. I got my M.Ed., but during that time I was pursuing a strong minor in Psychology, which I later majored in at the College of Charleston, in South Carolina. I found out I was more of the teaching and research type than an administrator type, and that I liked workin...