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Success Stories
You are not alone when it comes to having challenges to finishing your degree. As you will see from the stories below, it is possible to achieve your dream of earning a college degree with a little bit of hard work and the support of your friends, family and faculty.
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Crestcencia Ortiz
Looking back to a time when she was unemployed and temporarily homeless, Crestcencia Ortiz remembers feeling like giving up. Today, at age 28, she has a job she loves and is living the life that was once only a dream.
What made the difference? Ortiz points to her college degree – a Bachelor of Arts in Theater earned from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in May of 2010.
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Dr. John Pierce
For Army veteran John Pierce, the decision to return to college would mean the difference between his dead-end job as security in a Las Vegas bar and achieving his dream of becoming a doctor. The only thing that kept him from going back to college was fear; the fear of not being able to pick up where he left off when he dropped out in 1992; the fear of being behind in classes such as chemistry; and the fear of not being able to fit classes into his full-time work schedule at the nightclub.
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