A Backpack at 75: Ciro Scala’s Long Quest for a CCNY Degree
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Nearly six decades after he reluctantly dropped out of City College, Ciro Scala went back in 2016 and earned both an undergraduate and master’s degree from CCNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership. Now he’s fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a teacher, and he’s giving something back. He created a workshop program to help first-generation college students navigate some of the same kinds of challenges that sidetracked his own degree when he was a young first-gen student himself.                             RELATED LINKS * The New York Times: ‘I Was Not Whole’: Why a Grandfather Went Back to College * CUNY News: Chancellor Visits Ciro Scala’s First Gen Seminar
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