“The idea of college was always just an idea.” These days, college is very much a reality of Destiny Jedlicka’s life. This month, Jedlicka begins her final class at Orlando’s Valencia College in order to complete her associate’s degree in general studies. Earlier this...
Throughout the course of his 21-year career in the U.S. Army, Jeremiah Espersen got accustomed to being told precisely where to go, what to eat, and even when to go to the bathroom. So after filing his retirement paperwork earlier this year, Espersen found himself...
As a teenager struggling through her senior year at West Orange High School 20 years ago, Melissa Shank never would have imagined that one day a “B” would cause so much frustration. “I failed math like seven times. I couldn’t pass algebra to save my life,” Shank said...
Enrolled in approximately 400 colleges, universities and technical centers across the state are more than 1.5 million college students. These students share similar goals, but will undoubtedly take different paths to get there. That’s why we are excited to introduce...
Shawn Welcome’s long and winding road to getting his bachelor’s degree required the same perseverance and determination he describes in “Rio,” a poem he wrote last year as a tribute to the Refugee Olympic Team in Brazil. “It felt really good and, in a way, school was...
