EDWARDSVILLE, Ill., July 17 -- Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville issued the following news release:
"SIUE is a part of me. If not for me arriving at SIUE in 2007, I would not have the life I have today-my family, my friends, my career," said Sade Shepherd, a Southern IllinoisUniversityEdwardsvillealumna who earned her bachelor's degree in biological sciences in 2011 and later her master's degree in business administration in 2013.
Sade works in SIUE's SOAR program under Earleen Patterson, PhD, supporting first-generation campus students.
For the past decade,her husbandAlphonso Shepherd has served as a patrol officer for the SIUE PD. Officer Shepherd'sbeat spanscampus communities across Edwardsville, East St.Louisand Alton locati...