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.

Chastity Cunningham says she gets her determination from hermother. Gloria Farias was a veteran police officer who worked hard alongside her husband to provide for Cunningham and the couple’s two other children until Farias died from a brain aneurysm 10 yearsago.

Fear of failure nearly became Amber Chrobot’s biggest downfall. As a high schooler, she could barely face math. She was home-schooled, and family health problems combined with her stubborn attitude provided the formula she needed to drop out.

Taren Nance was ready to part with some of the shoes in his large collection of mostly retro Air Jordan sneakers. But the 27-year-old Pocomoke City resident didn’t want to give them to just anyone.

Guy Hostetter sure knows how to vacation. He drove 30 straight hours in a rented van, then spent several days working construction without pay. He sprained his ankle in the process, but it still was the most rewarding experience of his life.