Several graduates have significantly upgraded their positions in jobs they held while working on their B.A. degrees.

A Liberal Studies major has won his first patent, opened a manufacturing plant, and is now employing people in his own company.

Recent Liberal Studies graduates have earned professional degrees in library science, medicine, nursing, physical therapy, and social work.

Other graduates have begun service careers in teaching, counseling, and foreign mission work. Still others work in international business, health-care administration, the Federal government, the U.S. Army, and recreation.

Liberal Studies majors have successfully entered graduate school in Applied Social Science, Education, Library & Information Science, Professional Storytelling, and other disciplines by building key prerequisites into their undergraduate curricula.

Some Liberal Studies majors and graduates have created their own businesses as diverse as manufacturing, massotherapy, landscape design, and electric guitar repair.

One Liberal Studies graduate has published a book and has a second ready to print.

Another graduate took time off to apprentice in New York with an off-Broadway musical and then directed the play in Europe for three months.

Several Liberal Studies majors are employed at CSU, others are on staff at Lorain County Community College, and a recent graduate worked at Harvard University.

Some majors have discovered new interests and switched from Liberal Studies to choose undergraduate degrees in studio art, biology, physical therapy, psychology, urban anthropology.

A current major began as proclamation writer for Cleveland’s former Mayor Michael R. White and then became his Administrative Assistant.

A 1998 graduate in Liberal Studies was President of the CSU Student Government Association and is attending law school.

Several majors have incorporated new certificate programs into their work towards a B.A. in Liberal Studies, including formal concentrations in Writing, Gerontology, Black Studies, Health Sciences, Women’s Studies, Arts Management, and Computer Graphics.