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(Nadine Wimmer, KSL-TV) -- Usually the title "first in the nation" is a positive thing. But more young women in Utah drop out of college than anywhere else in the country. We're right on track with how many start. Now, several groups are trying to help more girls finish their education. Earlier this month, Eighth-grader Tori Castillo went on a date...
READ · Oct 25
(Nancy Van Valkenburg, Standard-Examiner) -- Only 16 percent of Utah public college and university students who enroll full time at in-state, four-year programs actually graduate four years later, a national study of college-completion rates has found. Give the same group another two years, and you'll get an extra 24 graduates per 100 original enrollees. Double the original four years to...
READ · Oct 06
(Arrin Newton Brunson, Salt Lake Tribune) -- L. John Wilkerson, a business leader and philanthropist, invited Utah State University’s graduating class Saturday to join him in a fight against poverty. The keynote speaker at USU’s 124th commencement ceremony in the Dee Glen Smith Spectrum, Wilkerson said 1.4 billion humans wake up each day without access to...
READ · May 09
(ABC 4 News, Salt Lake city) -- It was a very special day for one mother and daughter today, they both graduated from college. The mother, Gina Meacham and her daughter Sierra Willden graduated from Salt Lake Community College. Gina says one of her biggest reasons for getting a degree was to get out of an abusive relationship and to...
READ · May 09
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