{"id":581,"date":"2023-02-20T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/?p=581"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:00:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T02:00:27","slug":"victors-in-grad-school-duane-bedell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/2023\/02\/20\/victors-in-grad-school-duane-bedell\/","title":{"rendered":"Be True To Yourself &amp; Find Something You Are Passionate About With Duane Bedell"},"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: Be True To Yourself &amp; Find Something You Are Passionate About With Duane Bedell\" 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\/67ssuMI1ncaVUcNuglSlrU?si=Xv14xOVgS4SByTnbNHc5rw&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\/duane-bedell\/\">Duane Bedell<\/a> who is President at Bay Mills Community College in Brimley, Michigan. Duane shared his educational journey of attending the University of Michigan-Flint for his Master&#8217;s, Specialist and Doctorate degrees and how this educational journey has led him to reach his dream of leading Bay Mills Community College.<\/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&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/contact-us\/\">Office of Graduate Programs<\/a>&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;<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 Duane Bedell who is President at Bay Mills Community College in Brimley, Michigan. Duane shared his educational journey of attending the University of Michigan-Flint for his Master&#8217;s, Specialist and Doctorate degrees and how this educational journey has led him to reach his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":509,"featured_media":896,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,49,46,13,45],"tags":[51,52,50,31,27,30,42,54,53],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-edd","category-eds","category-education","category-graduate-school-general","category-podcast","tag-edd","tag-eds","tag-education","tag-graduate-degree","tag-graduate-school","tag-masters-degree","tag-masters-degree-2","tag-podcast","tag-victors-in-grad-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/graduateprograms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}