Student Stories
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Meet SLU’s 2020 Valedictorian and Salutatorian
Gena-Fae Fillingham B.A. Urban and Community Studies, summa cum laude Valedictorian, SLU Class of 2020 Gena-Fae Fillingham was born and raised in a small farm town in Nebraska, where her mother taught her to care about the most vulnerable in her community. She worked as a certified nurses’ aide throughout her senior year in high…
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Profile in Determination: Diaraye Bah, College Prep Student
No one is more determined to succeed than Diaraye Bah. Born in Guinea, Diaraye majored in biology at the Universite Gamal Abdel Nasser de Conakry (UGANC) before emigrating to the United States in 2012. She currently works as a Patient Care Associate at Metropolitan Hospital, taking vital signs, executing EKGs and collecting specimens from patients.…
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SLU Announces 2020 Diversity Scholarship Recipients
The Joseph S. Murphy Diversity Scholarships are dedicated to fostering diverse leadership in the labor movement and in the academic discipline of labor studies. Each year, SLU’s diversity scholarship program awards full tuition plus additional funds up to $30,000 for graduate students, and up to $20,000 for undergraduate students. This year, seven remarkable women of…
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Spotlight on Students: Montserrat Vargas
By Becky Firesheets This new reality of life in quarantine is challenging for all of us, but we don’t have to look far to find encouragement and motivation, especially when it comes to our students here at SLU. Montserrat Vargas, an adult learner currently enrolled in Worker Education’s Reading/Writing College Preparation course, recently shared her…
