non-traditional students

It’s non-traditional student week at UALR. To mark the occasion, student Amy Jo Hall shares her story of being the first in her family to go to college.

UALR will celebrate the more than 3,000 students on campus who are the first in their families to attend college at National Non-Traditional Student Week from Nov. 5 to 9.

In 1996 as she was graduating from Wilbur D. Mills High School, Cloyce Kathleen “Katie” Brents just assumed she didn’t have the brains nor the bucks to go to college. … Recession Gives Life to Long-Held Dream