{"id":130,"date":"2017-10-30T16:09:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T16:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/10\/30\/20171030humans-of-hamden-kiki-jones\/"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:52:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T19:52:36","slug":"20171030humans-of-hamden-kiki-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/2017\/10\/30\/20171030humans-of-hamden-kiki-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Humans of Hamden: Kiku Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Beverly Wakiaga<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s a warm aura that surrounds Professor Kiku Jones. Her yellow top matched her warm personality on a grey Tuesday Morning. It is easy to see why she was one of the professors to receive a Center for Excellence Award.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s absolutely amazing. I am so lucky to be able to do this and to get an award for it,\u201d she said. \u201cI can\u2019t even process it. It\u2019s just hard to say. I am absolutely blessed to do this.\u201d<\/p>\n

2017 has been a good year for Jones, she attended the award ceremony on October 19, she recently got tenure, and as a Kentucky basketball fan the recent changes to the Quinnipiac men\u2019s basketball team have her excited.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were like \u2018oh this is great, he\u2019s (Baker Dunleavy) got basketball in his blood, it\u2019s like a long line\u2019 we were really excited,\u2019 explained Jones. \u201cWe\u2019re super excited and we\u2019re definitely going to be at the basketball games.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been five years since Jones began teaching at Quinnipiac. She is originally from Kentucky but was teaching in Oklahoma before she made the move to the Northeast.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were there for nine years and everything in Oklahoma is kind of dead and flat. It was hot and nothing grew on the trees,\u201d Jones said laughing. \u201cMy sons … we were driving and they said \u2018Mom look, the trees are green\u2019 and I thought that\u2019s the saddest thing I\u2019ve ever heard. We love it here. We absolutely love it here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jones, a professor of computer information systems, made the move to New England because she was interested in the School of Business IT for Good program. The Kentucky native is also very passionate about giving back, she is always part of the big event and has gone to Guatemala twice to help different organizations build websites. She also wants to show her students that they can work outside of their expected career paths.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the senior capstone I try to have different projects that are based on non-profits so that the students can see that their skill sets can be used in that way, and I want the students to really see that the skills that they\u2019re doing don\u2019t only have to benefit themselves,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear to see that Jones doesn\u2019t only love her job but her students too. She describes herself as a behind-the-curtains person who wants to help build her students.<\/p>\n

\u201cI succeed when they succeed and that\u2019s what makes me happy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Beverly Wakiaga There\u2019s a warm aura that surrounds Professor Kiku Jones. Her yellow top matched her warm personality on a grey Tuesday Morning. It is easy to see why she was one of the professors to receive a Center for Excellence Award. \u201cIt\u2019s absolutely amazing. I am so lucky to be able to do … Continue reading Humans of Hamden: Kiku Jones<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83,4],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quinnipiac","tag-center-for-excellence","tag-quinnipiac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/3256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hqnn.org\/hqpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}