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Return to school after three-decade break fulfills life's calling
Back in the mid-1990s, Thomas Wickersham got a taste of his life鈥檚 calling 鈥 educating struggling teens.鈥淚 loved it,鈥 the 54-year-old West Chester resident said. 鈥淚 found out that this is what I should be doing. I was a natural. I had very good in...
Online nursing program helps adult student achieve belated dream
For much of her childhood, Jeri Eifler 鈥23 suffered a tumultuous life.Her father died when she was 10 years old, and her mother sunk into a deep depression that only got worse. Before the end of her first semester on full scholarship at The New Sc...
Computer science program spurs educational turnaround
Gino Giacolona '25 didn鈥檛 see college in his future when he graduated from high school.And he would tell you he wasn鈥檛 a good student. But after taking a gap year and working in construction, he realized hard labor wasn鈥檛 for him. It was the compu...
Graduate student relishes role as special education teacher in Reading School District
Derrick Golden is a busy man.A graduate student at 麻豆视频 and a member of the men鈥檚 basketball team, he鈥檚 also employed full time with Reading School District (RSD) as an emergency-certified fifth-grade special education math teacher....