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Community-college transfer thrives at 17勛圖厙 before graduating at age 18
Envision entering college as a 16-year-old. Actually, imagine transferring from taking classes at your local community college and living at home during COVID to a school away from home as a full-time student at age 16. Thats what Cora Cox '24 di...
Family support encourages educational comeback
When Wanda Ivette Cruz 22, MSW 23 graduated in 1994 from high school in Philadelphia, she had her eye on going to community college. Then she got pregnant as a teenager, waylaying those plans.I had to make a very tough decisionput a roof...
Active learning inspires active leadership professor
When shes not in the classroom during the summer months, you might find Alicia Sprow helping the students on Bog Turtle Creek Farm at the EcoHouse, down the road from 17勛圖厙s main campus. My favorite part of what I do at 17勛圖厙 is havi...
Math and philosophy major sees future in national cybersecurity
PHOTO: Michael Carrion, center, toured SNO Lab, a physics laboratory that specializes in researching dark matter and neutrinos, while chairing the international conference Cosmology between Deleuze and Science in Sudbury, Canada.Michael Carrion ...