Webmaster Interview of Staff Member: February 2012

Loves Her Family, Her Job, and Being Home … There Is No Place Like Home!
Interview by NPCC Webmaster

Sara Brown, our assistant director of Financial Aid, has been here for five years and has also worked for Admissions and Recruiting here at NPCC. She was born and raised here in our beautiful Hot Springs National Park. Before coming here she worked at AR Best Insurance and has a BBA in Accounting and a MBA from Henderson State University that she received after getting her Associates degree at NPCC.

Sara has certainly found her calling in Financial Aid since she tells me her first word as a child was “money” lol. Her family must have played a lot of “Monopoly”. Whether that meant she was destined for a career in financial aid or not, her efforts to help our students pay for college are certainly worth praising along with the entire staff of Financial Aid. Although happy where she is, Sara has further aspirations to continue her education with a doctoral degree in higher education. We look forward to seeing what area of study she chooses and where that takes her in life.

She loves the atmosphere here at NPCC where people really care. They care about the students, each other, and about what we do here. We have a premiere college that rivals universities and a faculty that achieve excellence in their teaching skill. She is proud to be a part of this wonderful institution that offers a “great, affordable education.”

She is married to her husband, Jeremy and has two children, Abby who is five and Zachary is two. They are adorable aren’t they? (See picture) I met them all at Olive Garden one evening when my wife, Lizzette and I were dining there and they are certainly–a beautiful family.

Sara loves to travel like most of us do and beautiful days like we have been having this week make me want to get on my scooter and ride off into the sunset to some exotic location. Besides travel, what Sara loves most is her time with family. She enjoys using her creative talents combined with her husband’s skill with Photography recording the many precious family memories making ‘digital scrap books.’ She also enjoys making floral arrangements. (See Teapot Picture)

I enjoyed my interview of Sara Brown; she has a warm and bubbly personality with a beautiful smile that uplifts you. She always seems so upbeat and positive and that I find so refreshing and encouraging. Life has so many obstacles and difficulties where it is hard to maintain a positive attitude. People like our dear Sara make us feel better, make us feel that everything is right with the world even if it is not. Like being home, like always staying in one place, where we feel safe, where we can truly relax and be ourselves…like Sara who loves being home because… ‘There is no place like home!’