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Megan Magee, BSBA Marketing & Human Resources ’95, MBA ’98Associate Vice President Regional Markets, National University “My dad’s career inspired my own. I admired him, wanted to emulate him, and automatically followed the business path.” Combining her studies with life as a Division I scholarship athlete offered life-long lessons in time management and unexpectedly, how to adapt to unplanned turns of events. A regular on the court ’90 through ’93, Megan red-shirted in her fourth year of eligibility, planning to return for her fifth. Instead she suffered an injury that ended her basketball career just as the team “really started gaining traction.” Unwilling to leave the team, she became a student coach her senior year. Her business career since has been one of juggling, adapting and flourishing. Converting a summer internship at Hughes Aircraft into a full-time offer upon graduation, she was managing trade shows for the marketing and communications group a year later when Hughes collaborated with the Eller College to establish the Weekend MBA and funded her enrollment. Within a year of completing her master’s she was recruited away from Hughes (now Raytheon) by RightFAX, a software company founded by Eller MIS graduates Brad Feder and Joe Cracchiolo, to manage strategic alliances with other software developers. In 2000, “in need of an adventure,” she left Tucson for San Diego and took a job heading business and technical operations for a small executive recruitment firm where she thought she would stay for a year. Four years later, in early 2004 Megan accepted her position with National University and has fully embraced its mission of “facilitating educational access and academic excellence to a diverse population of adult learners. We are a non-profit, private institution focused on quality and rigor in innovative learning approaches, dedicated to providing access adapted to the life stage and learning style of our students. We started in 1971 and have grown to 27 locations in California, we’re fully accredited, our endowment is $200 million, built primarily on our earnings. It’s a great organization. I’m back in a team environment. I’m staying here a long time.” |
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Megan Magee came to the UA in 1990 with two goals: to play women’s basketball under Coach Joan Bonvicini and to complete a degree in business. She accomplished both, and, “in love with Tucson,” stayed for another five years, holding marketing positions at Hughes Aircraft and RightFAX, Inc. (now Captaris, Inc.) and completing an Eller MBA. Born a Canadian, Megan and her family moved internationally, following her father’s career as a sales manager for International Harvester to locales as varied as Fort Wayne, Indiana and Singapore. 