Student Spotlight
Elizabeth Fisk
Liz Fisk was looking for ways to expand her horizons when she came to the University of Hartford five years ago. "I spent my whole life in the same house in a small town in Massachusetts," Fisk says. "There were only 60 people in my high school graduating class and I really wanted a chance to grow and develop as a leader."
Fisk has achieved even more than she expected. She was a member of the Student Government Association for three years; helped to found a local chapter of Alpha Phi Omega, the nation's largest service fraternity, and served as chapter president; and she's the past president of the Physical Therapy Student Association.
She also has been a teaching assistant in Physics; a tutor for physical therapy students; and she still volunteers as an aquatics instructor for senior citizens at the Jewish Community Center near campus.
"I tend to get very wrapped up in things," Fisk says, with characteristic understatement. "It's easy when you have a true passion for what you're doing."
This remarkable range of activities might be a distraction for some students, but not for Fisk. She won a Regent's Award as a junior for having the highest grade point average in the college. "I'm not very good at taking tests," she admits. "I barely broke 1,000 on the SATs when I took them four years ago. But the programs at the University of Hartford are designed to help you succeed and you get tremendous support from the faculty and your fellow students."
"I haven't decided yet what I want to do when I graduate. But I've already learned so much about my profession and myself that I don't see any limits on my future."
