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From all walks of life and for so many different reasons, adult and independent students how found that the Temple University Ambler and Fort Washington campuses are the perfect fit for them to begin a degree program, complete their degree, or further their career goals. Whether it has been all about getting that degree they alway wanted or starting a second career, our adult students have achieved great success and pursuing their dreams.
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By day, Paul Kopacz was driving a brown truck, wearing a brown uniform, and — safely, quickly and efficiently — delivering dozens of mostly brown packages.
By night? Well, by night, he was expanding his gray matter, adding red and yellow and orange and magenta, in ways he never thought possible.
“It’s like,” he said, “setting your brain on fire.”
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Donna Swansen clearly recalls her very first garden.
“I planted my first garden when I was five-years-old. It was a vegetable garden under the maple tree in our yard,” said Swansen, a 1981 graduate of Temple University Ambler’s Landscape Design program. “It leafed out, but I didn’t cultivate any vegetables on that first try.”
Little did Swansen know at the time that from those humble beginnings she would go on to help found an international association of professionals.
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In 1985, Philip Albright made an unlikely freshman at Temple University Ambler.
“I had my degree in Civil Engineering from Stanford and was moving toward retirement, or at least winding down. I felt that if I could complete the two-year degree in Horticulture, there was no four-year degree then, I’d make a half-baked landscape architect,” he said with a laugh. “My mother was an avid gardener. Growing up during World War II, we had a victory garden and I always loved gardening.”
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Isabelle Smith affectionately calls her journey to a Temple University Ambler degree in horticulture her “10-year plan.”
The Glen Mills grandmother began her quest for a bachelor’s degree in 1993 and never once over that 10 years thought about throwing in the towel.
“I was an at-home mom, I worked in my husband’s business, and I was an avid gardener. I came to Ambler to learn more about my plants.”
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No one is an island.
It’s a sentiment Kate Nuernberger, of Berwyn, took to heart when she found herself in her fifties and a freshman again at Temple University Ambler.
“I was working in marketing and research as an independent consultant. I was called in for another job and as I sat down to listen to the job description, the more I listened the more I thought, ‘I never want to do this type of work again.’”
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