Bio
Carla Aagaard is a graduate of La Sierra University in
Riverside, California, where she earned a B.A. in French. She is also a graduate of National Louis
University in Evanston, Illinois, where she earned a Master of Adult
Education—emphasis in Teaching English as a Second Language.
Before completing her undergraduate education, Carla spent
five years in Rwanda, Africa (1966-1971), teaching English as a Second Language
at a church mission operated high school and seminary. At this school, she reorganized and set up
the school library in the Dewey Decimal system.
After completing her B.A. in French in the U.S., she returned to Africa
and worked in Zaire (now Congo) teaching high school geography, art and a basic
zoology course in French in a high school and seminary operated by a church
mission organization near Butembo, Congo, for part of one school year. Then, she accepted a position as a bilingual
French and English administrative secretary for the same church mission
organization in Lubumbashi, Congo. She
not only performed secretarial and clerical duties, but was also responsible
for purchasing, transportation and importation of food and household items as
well as for supervision of the telephone operators. In addition, she worked for some months in
one of Lubumbashi’s import/export firms as the Assistant to the Director of the
firm where she was the Acting Manager when the owner/manager was out of
town. She also did inventory control,
all business correspondence and purchase orders, reconciled cash at closing
time and supervised warehouse receiving.
In the summer of 1980, Carla returned to the U.S. to obtain
further education. She earned two
business school diplomas in the 1980-81 school year in Fort Worth, Texas: Executive Secretarial and Executive
Accounting. In the summer of 1981, she
moved to the Chicago area to complete her M.A. in Adult Education (TESOL) at
National Louis University in Evanston, Illinois. She worked full time at the university as Assistant
to the Director in the Office of Professional Publications and Educational
Resources, as an Administrative Assistant in the Language and Minorities
Resource Center, and was an Administrative Intern in the Graduate English as a
Second Language Department. In addition,
she taught English as a Second Language part-time in the evenings to Japanese
businessmen in down-town Chicago. She graduated in 1985 and subsequently worked
for eight years in two different private California high schools as Registrar, French,
English, Fine Arts and English as a Second Language teacher. In 1993, she accepted a position as a
Residence Hall Director for a university in the state of Washington. In 1999, she resigned and moved to Oregon due
to her husband accepting a new teaching position. She worked as a Sales Team Member for
Mervyn’s Department Store and substituted as teacher’s aide in the public
school system. In 2000, she accepted a position
as Residence Hall Director for a university in northern California where she
worked until summer of 2004 when she moved to Morehead, Kentucky, to assist in
the care of her elderly parents.
At Morehead State University, Carla began working for
Aramark in the summer of 2004 and then accepted a temporary Academic
Departmental Specialist position in the Department of Nursing in late November. She subsequently was hired as the ADS in
February, 2005, and then after one year, was hired in February, 2006, in her
current position of Academic Counseling Coordinator for the Department of
Nursing.
In her spare time, Carla enjoys spending time with her
husband, family members, church family and friends, reading, walking for
exercise, growing a late spring/summer/early fall vegetable garden,
canning/freezing produce from the garden, and cooking.