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How Community Colleges Fuel Students' Dreams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Frederick Shegog, former Delaware County Community College student, now motivational speaker. At the closing plenary of the 2023 Dream Conference in Chicago, Achieving the Dream (ATD), a reform network of over 300 community colleges, handed the microphone to students who either currently attend or graduated from a community college.

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Dominican University VP builds hope for first-gen students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

I should know—I failed out of college my freshman year. My grandmother, who only had a seventh-grade education, never lost faith in me. How can you talk about education when you’re hungry, scared and not sure where you’re going to sleep from one night to the next? Many work full-time. But I was lucky.

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