{"id":504,"date":"2022-08-22T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/?p=504"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:17:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:17:42","slug":"victors-in-grad-school-brian-hercliff-proffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/2022\/08\/22\/victors-in-grad-school-brian-hercliff-proffer\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Your Research on All Programs You Are Considering With Brian Hercliff-Proffer"},"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: Do Your Research on All Programs You Are Considering With Brian Hercliff-Proffer\" 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\/2VxBhA6Vyt5Tjr9atPV6Dv?si=LhJiocbzTHKWvU7OAGoNgg&amp;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This week on the Victors in Grad School podcast we are joined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bdhproffer\/\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Brian Hercliff-Proffer<\/span><\/strong><\/a> who is the Assistant Director for Registered Student Organizations and Late Night Programming at Michigan State University. We talk with Brian about his non-traditional path to graduate school, how he chose to attend Eastern Michigan University as the school he chose to attend, working while in graduate school, and more. We also delve into the work he is doing now and tips that he shares with students about attending graduate school that he has learned over the years working in higher education. <\/p>\n\n\n\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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/contact-us\/\">Office of Graduate Programs<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week on the Victors in Grad School podcast we are joined by Brian Hercliff-Proffer who is the Assistant Director for Registered Student Organizations and Late Night Programming at Michigan State University. We talk with Brian about his non-traditional path to graduate school, how he chose to attend Eastern Michigan University as the school he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,13,45],"tags":[50,31,27,32,54,53],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-graduate-school-general","category-podcast","tag-education","tag-graduate-degree","tag-graduate-school","tag-higher-education","tag-podcast","tag-victors-in-grad-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","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=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}