Florida Career College to Close Doug Lederman Fri, 01/26/2024 - 03:00 AM Byline(s) Doug Lederman from Inside Higher Ed https://ift.tt/avZRfLi
STUDENT VOICE: ‘I never imagined that I’d attend a four-year college, especially not while raising and supporting a son’
I’m a 36-year-old single mother and a first-generation college student. I’m the older sibling to a brother who is high-functioning on the autism spectrum and a sister who has Down syndrome. I’m also a May 2020 graduate of a community college and an incoming student this fall at the University of California, Los Angeles. I never imagined that I would attend a four-year college, especially not while raising and supporting a son. This is the story of how I got there. I hope it will encourage other nontraditional learners to seek out a four-year college degree. Related: Why so few students transfer from community colleges to four-year universities My mother, who had only an elementary-level education, raised us on her own and didn’t have any real desire for us to go further in school, to earn any form of higher-education credential. She worked all day. While I was in high school, when she’d leave for work, I would tell her that I was running late for class — but I’d never actually ...