You’ll Find It Here
DANIEL FOX, JD, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF LAW, AND SIDNEY MILLIKEN, MBA, ALUMNAShare
Some people know at five. Most of us find out along the way.
Sidney Milliken arrived at Ashland with a big personality and almost no idea what she was going to do with it. She chose sport management, added a religion minor because it brought her joy and spent a year as a graduate assistant in the athletic department alongside people who would stay with her long after. She earned a bachelor’s in sport management and an MBA here, and now plans professional tennis events across the United States. When asked if she wasted her time here, she didn’t pause. Life is good, she said. This is where that started.
Daniel Fox knew exactly what he wanted to be. He decided in high school: a tax attorney. He made all the right moves, went to law school, finished strong academically and went to work at a large public accounting firm. He found it empty. It took him 15 years of professional experience to understand what he was actually called to do. He came to Ashland’s College of Business to teach finance, accounting and entrepreneurship, started as an adjunct 33 years ago and never left. He says it still doesn’t feel like work. His philosophy of teaching is built around a single idea: meet the student where they are. When a student walks through his door, wherever they’ve been, however square that peg is, his heart is with them from the first day.
What holds their conversation together is the same thing that carried both of them: a place full of people who show up for you.
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