October 31, 2008

A Trailblazer Reaches Out to the Community

By DEBRA E. BLUM

Marie Foster Gnage West Virginia U. at Parkersburg

When Marie Foster Gnage taught English at a college in Florida in the 1980s, she found that many of the students who impressed her the most were community-college transfers. Not only were they prepared academically, she recalls thinking, but they were determined and motivated.

"That's when I started to fall in love with community colleges and their mission," Ms. Gnage says. "Anyone who wants an education can get one, and the

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