McAllister has partnered with the California-based nonprofit Water Wells for Africa to donate a portion of the proceeds from each shoe sale to the charity. The nonprofit raises money to build water wells in villages without ready access to clean drinking water.

Hannah Ackerman, a student at Hawkeye Community College in Waterloo, has won history awards for her presentations on two naval disasters. One is the loss of Waterloo’s five Sullivan brothers during World War II. The other is the “missing 74” of the destroyer USS Frank E.

Bell won a silver medal at the competition, which included gold-medal winners from every state. He currently works for Lennox, and is pursuing a second degree in process operating technology at LIT..

At age 6, he wrote a song. He has written a book, is working on another one and has authored several plays. He recently took the California High School Proficiency Examination to earn the equivalent of a diploma and does math well above grade level..

West Plains, Mo. — Education means a great deal to Yanique Bradford. That’s one of the reasons she traveled more than 1,100 miles from her home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., to receive her associate of applied science in enology degree from Missouri State University-West Plains.

Posey qualified for assistance from SCC, being a single parent with a low income and majoring in a male-dominated field. The college provided child care for her daughters so she could attend classes full time. She found a nurturing environment in the culinary arts program.

“I slapped since seventh grade,” Shields said, referring to the technique of “slapping” at the ball like a bunt from the lefthanded batter’s box. “I had slapped until my senior year (of high school). I started to kind of hit from the left side, but I was never a power hitter.

 A 39-year-old student whose loss of vision changed her career goal from hairdresser to radio personality received her associate degree as a member of the Class of 2014 during Camden County Colle

TOWN- SHIP, Mich. (AP) — For Delta College sophomore Helen Szabo, her earliest experiences with community involvement were seven years ago, when she began helping prepare food in the kitchen at the Good Samaritan Rescue Mission, an emergency shelter for the homeless.

Amid repeated “fwup, fwup, fwup” bursts, about a half dozen students from Dixie Applied Technology College fired potatoes from the barrels of their makeshift bazookas and cannons as part of a competition to see who could make the vegetables fly the farthest at the south end of the old runway.

Destany Atkins, a nurse at the Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare neonatal intensive care unit, mixes formula for a premature baby. Atkins who was born premature weighing a little more than 2 pounds at birth, spent 97 days in the hospital’s neonatal intensive care unit.

Harper College Hospitality Program Trains Students How To Manage Business and Prepare Food

But Critics Complain that Too Few Students See Benefits

Greenfield Community College Helps Immigrant Get Back on His Feet After Series of Setbacks

College Helps Woman Make Transition from English Classroom to Street

For Kimberlie Morris, being homeless involved, in her words, ``lots of camping.’’

You can measure literacy in degrees. For instance, Ashley Sauer wants to improve hers enough to earn a degree from Ivy Tech Community College and be able to find and keep a job in medical technology.

On Dec. 14, 2012, a tragedy nearly 800 miles away forced Battle Creek’s Kari Dixon to re-evaluate her life plan. That day, Dixon was 19 years old and halfway through her first year at Kellogg Community College, working toward a psychology degree. She wanted to work in schools. She wanted to work with kids.