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Culinary, IT Programs Popular at Woodbridge’s Stratford University

Elected officials attend a luncheon at Stratford University in Woodbridge to learn more about the school's degree programs. [Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]
Elected officials attend a luncheon at Stratford University in Woodbridge to learn more about the school's degree programs. [Uriah Kiser / Potomac Local News]
WOODBRIDGE, Va. -- Derrick Wood knows barbeque, but he honed his culinary and business skills at a private university in Woodbridge.

Owner of Devine Barbeque in Motion, and a Dumfries Town Councilman, Wood received his Bachelors Degree from Stratford University in 2011. He continued on at the for-profit college to obtain his MBA in hospitality management.

Now working as employee at the school, another hat he wears, Wood has found its his mission to tell the community about the work being done at Stratford, and about how its program set him up for success.

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