She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?
NEW YORK — As she struggled through yet another difficult class last year, Marleny Hernandez felt her dream of becoming a nurse slipping away — again. The odds of continuing were not in her favor. Overall, students who are parents are 10 times less likely to complete a bachelor’s degree within five years than students who are not.
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UNITY, Maine — Like many campuses around the country, Unity College is silent, and not only because it’s buried under a thick covering of snow. It and a handful of other institutions are transforming themselves permanently, using lessons of the Covid-19 era to adopt or speed up dramatic innovations in a sector that in normal times is very slow to change.
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