When Jesenia Larios graduated high school in 2001, she couldn’t imagine herself pursuing a degree. “I just didn’t have the same opportunities or help to find out how to get to college,” she said. “I was the first in my family to speak English and graduate high school.” Larios, a Spanish and secondary education major […]
Before she decided to pursue a graduate degree in history, Samantha Edgerton worked in the disability and insurance industry for 18 years. “I was hesitant to start a master’s program because of my age,” Edgerton said, “but my adviser encouraged me to not let that prevent me. It has been a dream of mine to […]
Family is core to who Geoff Schramm is as a friend, a person, but especially as a father and husband. It’s the reason why he decided to go back to school at Washington State University Tri-Cities in his late 30s – a decision that led to many people asking him, “Why?”
If “life experience” were an academic program, Natalie Ewing, a social science and digital technology and culture double major, would already have her master’s degree. Like many other nontraditional students, Ewing encountered her share of detours and unexpected turns along the path to college. Raised in California, she grew up amid drugs, alcohol, physical and […]
WSU Tri-Cities alumnus Geoff Schramm never thought he would go to college. Coming from a family where no one before him in his family had gone to college, he said it was sort of a family tradition that he goes straight into the workforce after high school. “That’s just what you did in my family,” […]