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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/JOHN SYKES JR - HIGH PROFILE VOLUNTEER - Steve Nelson
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/JOHN SYKES JR - HIGH PROFILE VOLUNTEER - Steve Nelson

The University of Arkansas at Little Rock College of Business serves largely nontraditional students, many of whom have worked for years before pursuing degrees and who must balance studies with families and jobs.

Seven years ago, Steve Nelson, 56, vice president and controller of Dillard's Inc. since 1988, was one of these nontraditional students -- in Texas.

"As a middle-aged business person, I went back to school and got my MBA when I was 49. We had about 60 of us in our cohort. About half of them were engineers. I got to watch these guys transform their careers from just an engineer to being in charge of something," Nelson says.

It was a University of Texas program, and Nelson spent 18

High Profile on 06/08/2014

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