{"title":"Against All Odds: Persevering as a Minority Woman to Earn a Doctorate","authors":"Latrina Thomas Ph.D.","doi":"10.1002/dap.31483","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>My chemistry instructor's words cut through me like a blade: “College is not for you.” I was 20 years old, struggling to complete a lab class in an associate degree program in nursing, and those words felt like the final nail in the coffin of my dreams. As I stood there, I could feel the weight of her judgment, as though my future had already been decided. But deep down, I knew she was wrong.</p>","PeriodicalId":100354,"journal":{"name":"Dean and Provost","volume":"26 7","pages":"6-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Dean and Provost","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dap.31483","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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My chemistry instructor's words cut through me like a blade: “College is not for you.” I was 20 years old, struggling to complete a lab class in an associate degree program in nursing, and those words felt like the final nail in the coffin of my dreams. As I stood there, I could feel the weight of her judgment, as though my future had already been decided. But deep down, I knew she was wrong.