{"id":215,"date":"2014-03-11T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T00:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/?p=215"},"modified":"2014-07-09T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T14:40:43","slug":"michael-stephens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/2014\/03\/11\/michael-stephens\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Stephens &#8217;07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Stephens, who took part in the first year of IWU&#8217;s accounting internship program, recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/news\/2014\/03-accounting-internship.html\" target=\"_blank\">spoke about his experiences<\/a>. Since the program started in 2006, more than 175 students have participated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat internship opportunity was hugely important because I could apply the theories we had learned in the classroom to the business world,\u201d said Stephens, who is now Manager, Assurance Services, for CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) in Oak Brook, Ill. \u201cAs a junior in college, I was actually going into chief financial officers\u2019 and controllers\u2019 offices and asking them questions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the rest of the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwu.edu\/news\/2014\/03-accounting-internship.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Stephens, who took part in the first year of IWU&#8217;s accounting internship program, recently spoke about his experiences. Since the program started in 2006, more than 175 students have participated. \u201cThat internship opportunity was hugely important because I could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/2014\/03\/11\/michael-stephens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":428,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-page"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/428"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/2007classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}