Testimonials:

An internship at Plante Moran, one of the nation’s largest accounting and business advisory firms in the U.S., led to Alana Schoenle being offered…
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Emily Burgess saves lives in the emergency room of the INOVA Health System in Fairfax, Virginia. She enjoys teaching students and new graduates, as well as walking with patients and families through some of the hardest days of their lives.

Caroline Mentyka works with a team to coordinate improvements in Southwest Airlines’ reservation system. She ensures that the airline delivers quality code to customers as well as front-line employees through testing applications from all across the different areas of the company. She is also the culture lead for her department, in charge of planning events for fellow employees.

“The professors at Franciscan have high expectations—they want students to do their best with whatever project they’re working on,” says Michael Blankenberger ’12. It’s a lesson that transitions outside the classroom, too, he points out. “After you graduate, you can’t just fluff it either.”

Emma Starre is living out success in the education field as the Intervention Specialist for Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Toledo, Ohio.

Diego Araujo is a youth and young adult minister at Most Precious Blood Parish in Brooklyn.

“Preach the Gospel at all times. If necessary, use words.” For Teresa Kovach, the words of St. Francis sum up her experience at Franciscan University. After graduating with her degree in education in 2013, she moved to Kuwait to teach students with mild to moderate learning disabilities.“Living in a Muslim country, this quote reminds me of the spiritual nourishment I received at Franciscan–where I learned that the Gospel is about love, a language that speaks to every heart.”

For some students, a traditional public school just won’t work. Due to academic, behavioral or social issues, they aren’t accepted or don’t choose to attend. In Phoenix, Arizona, those students can come to Hope High School, a small alternative public charter school where Chris Buehnerkemper ’13 teaches math.

Andrew Mihaly ’13 says attending Franciscan University allowed him to pursue his undergraduate degree in an environment where he “could truly flourish in my studies, my faith, and my social life.”Now a middle and high school social studies teacher at a private Catholic school, Andrew also coaches the school’s basketball and baseball teams, and serves as advisor for its chapter of the National Honors Society.

“The business world is no longer local,” says David Kirk ’11. He should know: he’s a financial analyst for Cisco, a company that designs networking systems to connect the global world.