overcoming adversity and achieving dreams through higher education
“In finding yourself, you discover an array of beauty within. You discover that you actually are intelligent, when your teachers and classmates had written you off as dumb because you didn’t apply yourself. Now you’ve found that part of yourself you never dreamed of — an appetite for learning. Now you have turned into a …
We wind down the 2020-21 academic year proud of our students and what we have accomplished in the face of adversity. When the pandemic interrupted our face-to-face instruction, Odyssey Beyond Bars (OBB) rose to the occasion, developing new digital teaching tools to engage our students and adding to the courses we offer at Oakhill Correctional Institution. …