{"id":1108,"date":"2023-07-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/?p=1108"},"modified":"2026-05-19T21:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T01:46:01","slug":"your-graduate-degree-will-progress-quickly-get-ready-with-brenton-nikola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/2023\/07\/31\/your-graduate-degree-will-progress-quickly-get-ready-with-brenton-nikola\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Graduate Degree Will Progress Quickly, Get Ready, with Brenton Nikola"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Your Graduate Degree Will Progress Quickly, Get Ready, with Brenton Nikola\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/7qe50EqnjrROjeLOUr8TgX?si=Gh6GIw3EQgOEID6k7zu2Eg&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><!-- x-tinymce\/html --><\/p>\n<p>This week on the Victors in Grad School podcast, we are joined by <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brenton-nickola-278b817\/\">Brenton Nikola<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Executive Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.erikjonesracing.com\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Erik Jones Foundation<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Today we talked to Brenton Nikola about his own educational journey leading him from receiving his Bachelor&#8217;s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint to receiving his Masters in Public Administration, also from the University of Michigan-Flint.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:post-content --> <!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>This podcast is brought to you by The Office of Graduate programs at the University of Michigan-Flint. If you\u2019re still wondering about other things to consider when it comes to graduate school, you can also contact the&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/contact-us\/\">Office of Graduate Programs<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;at UM-Flint. We\u2019re here to answer questions Monday \u2013 Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST. You can also find out more about the 50+ programs that the university has to offer&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the Victors in Grad School podcast, we are joined by Brenton Nikola, Executive Director of the Erik Jones Foundation. Today we talked to Brenton Nikola about his own educational journey leading him from receiving his Bachelor&#8217;s degree from the University of Michigan-Flint to receiving his Masters in Public Administration, also from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,45,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-graduate-school-general","category-podcast","category-public-administration"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/509"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}