Volume 28, Issue 2
Spotlight on Faculty, Student Life Director Julie Beggs Written by Rachel Bruner
Photo provided by Julie Beggs
“To those who much is given, much is expected,” and “You have to play the game to change the game,” are two quotes that Julie Beggs has lived by for the past twenty-five years. The Director of Student Life at FRCC Westminster Campus, Beggs seems to have led by the example of those sayings not just in her new and exciting, yet very ambitious, title at
Front Range Community College, but also throughout her life. Born and having grown up near East Chicago, Indiana, Beggs always saw herself as a Chicagoan – living so close to Chicago, she became very experienced with city life and was surrounded by many different people and an abundance of customs and traditions. In the schools she
attended her knowledge of different types of people really aided in her understanding and love for working with them. Beggs was brought up in a middle-class, faith-driven, Midwestern family where caring for one another and a hard-working mentality created a strong sense of community. Beggs also grew up with a love for musical performance, specifically
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through singing, and had always thought that would be her profession. Though Beggs originally went to college at Butler University to major in Vocal Performance, she discovered that the real reason she loved performing so much. “I loved how it made me have an opportunity to connect with people on a very real and special level,” Beggs said, and so she changed her major to Public and Corporate Communication – a degree that focuses on business and communication skills. Beggs first job following her Bachelor’s degree was the Assistant Director of Activities at Butler University, where her formative years greatly came in to play by “being able to help students figure out who they are through being of service to others and setting up opportunities for people to learn from experiences,” Beggs explained. She then left the university to join an organization called Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, where she received experience in visiting colleges across the country and the world to give speeches on how to be a servant leader: a leader who serves others first. The organization’s major goal – to create the type of leaders who make sure to take care of the individuals that
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