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Nursing passion drives educational comeback
Sonya's Comeback StoryCreate Your ComebackNearly three decades after earning her associate degree in nursing from Alvernia, Sonya Naugle ’25 returned to the classroom and proudly crossed the graduation stage again on May 10, 2025 — this time with ...
Online-program flexibility helps ambitious adult student create her comeback
English Bradley ’26 has “this happy, delusional optimism all the time,” as she put it, and a firm belief that everything will work out, even when hope might appear slim.At her lowest, the Reading native was forced to drop out of college when finan...
Hamburg police chief refining leadership skills with multiple degrees at Alvernia
Anthony Kuklinski loved the experience of earning his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice at Alvernia University so much that he followed it up by earning his Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership, then immediately enrolled in the Ph.D. in...
