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The
third degree
Compton
woman earns her third master’s degree, set to graduate
Friday
By
Cheryl Scott
Bulletin
Staff Writer
To
lifelong Compton resident Marlene Boyden-Boykin, the words “third
degree” have taken on a whole new meaning.
This Friday she will graduate from Cal State Dominguez Hills with
a master’s degree in health administration. It is her third master’s
degree.
She began her academic career at Compton Community College during
the 1970s. She took a hiatus to raise her son, but never lost sight of
her goal. She went back to school in 1997, on a Presidential Scholarship,
earning a bachelor of science degree in sociology from CSUDH.
She earned her first master’s degree in 1999 in gerontology, but
the field was not, at that time, recognized as an academic discipline.
“I had been working in the health care field for many years,” she
told The Bulletin. “But the state required a master’s degree
to work as a sociologist. So I got my second master’s at CSU Long
Beach, this time in social work.”
With sights set on management in the field of social work, she decided
to seek her third degree.
“At this time in my life, I’m looking at the years ahead, and
I plan to work until I’m 75, if the Lord is willing,” she said. “I
would like to put my experience to work in upper-management positions,
and for that I needed a master’s in health administration.”
Boyden-Boykin works at a dialysis center, where she counsels patients
and their families
.
“I am very involved with the patients,” she said. “Most
of them have many questions about the treatment and their prognosis. I
encourage
them to continue their treatments on time and tell them the consequences
if they do not. I also give them moral support and help their families
to cope with the fact that dialysis is a treatment used for people
in grave conditions.”
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