A Vision for Success: Randolph Community College Student Pursues MBA

By Clark Adams, RCC English/Communication instructor

Shannon Satterfield

Although he was born with achromatopsia (a rare hereditary vision disorder that affects one person in 33,000 in the United States), at age 41, Asheboro-native Shannon Satterfield has never lost sight of his dream of obtaining a master’s degree in Business Administration. In fact, that dream drew closer to reality when he graduated from Salem College in May 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration through the University Center of Randolph County and enrolled in Liberty University’s MBA program this past August. However, Satterfield will be the first to admit that the path has not always been so clear. 
           
As a middle school and high school student, Satterfield had visions of majoring in music in college and becoming a professional pianist. However, his academics were not a priority at that stage of his life. He attended Fayetteville Street Christian School from kindergarten to the eighth grade and then attended Southwestern Randolph High School, where he graduated in 1992. He describes his grades in high school as mediocre at best. Upon graduation, Satterfield enrolled at Randolph Community College, taking college transfer courses in the University of North Carolina at Greensboro’s Extension program and planned to transfer and enroll in the School of Music at UNCG. “When I enrolled at RCC in 1992, my grades were not important to me. My studies were not a priority and other things were important,” Satterfield recently recalled. In fact, he did not complete the program. As he puts it, “Life happened.”

For more on this story, go to http://www.randolph.edu/newevents/2013/2013-10-04.php.