Continuing Education Program Helps UM-Dearborn Students SOAR
Since 2001, the Student Outreach and Academic Resources Program has enabled nontraditional, struggling students to obtain their degrees from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Kathie Norfleet’s life was going nowhere. A high school dropout, she used drugs and alcohol, married young, and was abused. By the time the 1980s rolled around, she had no diploma, no degree–nothing to show for her life. Even after getting her GED and an associate’s degree, she lacked direction and purpose. But that was before she enrolled in the University of Michigan-Dearborn Student Outreach and Academic Resources Program. Now, bachelor’s degree in hand, Norfleet works for the City of Dearborn, and is pursuing her Masters in Public Administration with aspirations to work in human resources. She credits SOAR with much of her success. “Since I’ve been here, I’ve learned a lot, and I didn’t know what I was going for except that I wanted to…
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