General Born started her formal education with the Air Force but ended it at Penn State with a degree in industrial and organizational psychology. She is now the Dean of Faculty at the United States Air Force Academy and has a lot of advice that young students or alums can learn from.
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>> Dana Borne: I'm Brigadier General Dana Borne and I'm the Dean of Faculty at the Air Force Academy, general officer of the United States Air Force. I'm like a provost at a university where the academic program is my responsibility at the United States Air Force Academy. The day starts about 5:30 in the morning, typically, work out of home for the first hour or so and then go into the office between 7 and 7:30. And then, typically, during a week, the official part of the day may end about 5:30, we say 17:30. But then, typically, there's a dinner hosting an international delegation or a visiting lecture or so. Sometimes, it can go through till 9:30 10:00 at night. I do most of my thought work at home after the kids go to bed or before they wake up in the morning because it's quiet and I can have devoted uninterrupted time. During the day, I'm, primarily, going to events, classes, in meetings, pop in pop up issues. So, I really don't try to spend too much time in the office doing work during the day. We have our board of trustees, board of visitors meetings four times a year. Two are in Washington DC and two we host at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. But, there's also travel, having the opportunity to visit our students studying abroad. So, I've been to the UK and Spain, had the opportunity to travel to lots of different states in the United States for different conferences and things like that. So, yeah there is quite a bit of travel. [ Silence ]
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