Copy of Gloria's Road in 2 phases: 5 & 10 Years

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  1. my name is Gloria Mazula.
  2. I am a finalist in the Higher Education Master's program
  3. at Sam Houston State University.
  4. uh we were given a task of designing our five
  5. and 10 year outlook from here on.
  6. And when a task like that is given to me,
  7. I always tend to look at my past and my
  8. present because I believe that this life is a journey
  9. and in that journey, anything I do or have done
  10. will impact the way I look at my future.
  11. Therefore I decided to start from my origins.
  12. I was born from proud parents farmers in a rule
  13. uh area in a small porches calling it called muslim
  14. Beak in Southern Africa from the beginning, early on our
  15. parents, these farmers um they taught us and influenced us
  16. that education is the path to succeed and move on
  17. up. They were farmers but they believe that if we
  18. decide to stand farming we should do more than what
  19. they were doing at the time, they encouraged us to
  20. to study, they encouraged us to succeed and I did
  21. that. Uh huh My first school, my grade school was
  22. in a small rule a school and I always like
  23. to bring this up because it was a classroom made
  24. in a house of the teacher.
  25. And in that house we had from first to the
  26. first grade, she made the best to teach all of
  27. us. She was very much maternal, very educative and she
  28. exposed us to everything from poetry to reading.
  29. Uh And I did some poetry, I remember when I
  30. was in 1st 2nd grade, I did my high school
  31. in muslim muslim Beak did my undergrad and applied mathematics
  32. in Arizona and went back to Mozambique worked and I
  33. did a post grad in public administration and then I
  34. decided to come back to Sam Houston to do my
  35. higher education because from many years back uh I wanted
  36. to do a master's degree in higher education, I started
  37. to work at 17 years old.
  38. Before that I volunteered as uh in our favorite ization
  39. wasn't because a higher rate of illiteracy and um after
  40. that I worked as an assistant for math for the
  41. math teachers in a school and um got married, left
  42. the country, worked as a nurse here in United States
  43. in phoenix Arizona, and after I went back and did
  44. my undergrad in mathematics, I went back to muslim Beak
  45. and worked in register where I I was the leader
  46. in that area.
  47. I had, I helped to set up the services and
  48. I'm back in the United States now working as an
  49. academic advisor at Lone Star College.
  50. Mhm One thing I would like to say is that
  51. all the tasks, all the work that I've done throughout
  52. my years, I have learned to to feel happy and
  53. I found purpose to what I was doing.
  54. So I have felt fulfilled throughout my work career and
  55. as an academic advisor today, I feel that my path,
  56. my my my basically what I would say my destiny
  57. and my career is in there and I enjoy every
  58. minute of it.
  59. I have very skills.
  60. Um I have leadership skills in higher education um especially
  61. in the area of student affairs.
  62. I feel that I'm assistant academic advisor in higher education.
  63. I started early on to work as an advisor and
  64. I worked in high education and muslim big for many
  65. years and then here and I feel I feel very
  66. confident in that area.
  67. I have high ability to work with diverse, diverse groups
  68. and I have read a lot about that and I
  69. believe that when we do our work special advising uh
  70. huh different groups react to different ways to the way
  71. we approach our advising methods and how we work with
  72. our students.
  73. I am able to create instead of programs to improve
  74. student success.
  75. I worked with students with probation and suspension holds and
  76. I'm proud to say that during that time we set
  77. up a system that helped a lot of students to
  78. come out of the holes and continue on.
  79. I am very patient and methodic with my students in
  80. the next five years.
  81. Like I said, because I've had that experience.
  82. What I'm planning to do is to continue to introduce
  83. improvements in my job.
  84. I'm a Tree advisor at this moment.
  85. I've been doing this for a year.
  86. I want to be more active as an academy member.
  87. I'm planning to move into a leadership position before I
  88. retire, create an advising podcast in Portuguese in english and
  89. start my memoir.
  90. I find it very important for me to live a
  91. written memoir of my life.
  92. I have a trajectory that I should do it for
  93. my Children and for other people that might be interested.
  94. My 10 Year forecast.
  95. I'll finish my, my my memoirs.
  96. I work full time for four more years within the
  97. 10 year period and then I'm planning to retire and
  98. enjoy the fruits of my hard work and travel.
  99. One thing that I enjoy doing in my life is
  100. make stops and travel.
  101. I've traveled to different parts of the world.
  102. I've gone to conferences in brazil, uh huh and uh
  103. and Mauritius and Portugal and I want to continue to
  104. do those troubles not only as work but also as
  105. leisure. Thank you for listening to my presentation and I
  106. hope you enjoyed it.
  107. Thank you.