Rodell Jones

Rodell Jones
Major/Job Title:
Criminal Justice BAS
Hometown:
Washington, D.C.
Class Year:
Summer 2023

Rodell Jones

When I first went to school, it was just too much too fast. I had a reckless habit of not completing things, and, to me, that was a problem. I wanted to change that.  [Before this program,] I have managed to get jobs without a degree. The problem is there's a ceiling. In order to compete, you're going to need some sort of formal schooling. So that's one of the things that I'm instilling in my children.

If I'm paying thousands of dollars for my education, I should be able to pick up the phone and I should be able to reach who I need to reach. At UNI, I always got that. And that wasn’t my experience with other schools. On top of that, UNI offered a lot of incentives for me to come. It felt like you all wanted me to come. As a school as a whole, the staff — every single one of them at UNI — have always been on point with getting me back the information that I need. They're not waiting weeks and days to get a response back.

I'll say that once I come out of this experience, I'll be able to do anything, I don't think that there's anything that I wouldn't be able to deal with. {My advice for prospective students is] don't look at your age and say, ‘Oh, well, I'm too old to go back to school’ because I went to school at the age I was supposed to go, but unfortunately life got in the way of that. Age does not affect whether you should go back to school or not. It's all in your goals and what it is that you're trying to do.

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