Dakota County Technical College (DCTC) is offering scholarships in the Marketing and Sales Program to four new, full-time students.*
The scholarship page provides the information you need. Make sure to scroll down to the bottom of the page to fill out the simple scholarship application form!
New Marketing and Sales Program Students, who enroll full-time (12 credits or more), are eligible to apply for a scholarship!
Degrees:
These degrees’ courses can be taken fully online, in the classroom, or a combination of both. Your choice! The Marketing Design Program has a few courses which need to be taken in the classroom.
Semester starts on Monday, August 27th! Apply Today!
* Note: Four scholarships will be given at the beginning of the semester. All scholarship applicants will have their applications reviewed for eligibility, and four studnts will be awarded the scholarships from the pool of applicants.
DCTC is a two-year technical college in Rosemount, Minnesota, a southern suburb of the Twin Cities. A member of the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System, DCTC is an affirmative action, equal opportunity, employer and educator. Graduates of our institution will be wholly equipped to advance their chose careers in an increasingly challenging global economy.
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Carie Statz is a marketing and sales instructor. She began teaching at DCTC in 1998.
Carie is pursuing her doctorate in business administration (DBA), has a master's degree in mass communications from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She has a bachelor's degree in from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where she minored in Spanish and majored in mass communications with an emphasis on advertising and public relations.
At the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico, she pursued general studies in Spanish and anthropology. She also attended the Grantsmanship Training Program at Marquette University.
Carie continues her education through software upgrades and Web applications. She also attends seminars, courses, and conferences covering new trends in marketing and graphic design.
Her nonprofit marketing experience includes supervisory positions at DCTC, UWM, and the Community Action Program of Janesville, Wisconsin. Her for-profit experience includes work for Walt Disney World, Oscar Mayer Foods, and TCF Bank of Wisconsin.
Carie published "How the News Media Affects the Public's Perception of Crime" as her thesis.
In 2003 and 2007, Carie was nominated as "DCTC Instructor of the Year." As DCTC's marketing director, she won several awards for marketing materials, including radio and television commercials as well as viewbooks and catalogs. In 2003, she won the Silver IABC Award for designing the college's 2002-2003 viewbook.
Regarding her teaching philosophy, Carie strives to "bring the real world into the classroom as much as possible so students are prepared for work upon graduation."
The best part of her job as a DCTC instructor is hearing from internship supervisors about how they would rather hire a prepared student from DCTC than another student from a four-year college.
Carie is a member of the American Marketing Association and does volunteer work for Treasurers of the Heart and Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity.
