Anne Flint
Anne Flint will receive a bachelor's degree in history at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder on May 11, after a 30-year effort that included five schools, a cross-country move and the birth of a son. Flint, 48, started school with the notion of becoming a professor, but that goal changed as life went on, she said. Never losing sight of her ultimate goal, however, she has chipped away at it bit by bit.
Flint, who works at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ at Boulder with the alcohol awareness program A Matter of Degree, has taken advantage of employee tuition benefits, enrolling in one class per semester free of charge. She also has taken correspondence courses and has a few transfer credits from other schools to work into the mix. With the end in sight, Flint said she has no plans to give up learning. In fact she is currently working with a program for deaf and hard-of-hearing students at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder that requires her to attend classes and take notes, but without the tests and papers.
She can be reached at (303) 926-8160.
Aysara Yusupova
Aysara Yusupova, a student who made the trek to ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder all the way from Uzbekistan, a former Soviet state located in central Asia, will graduate with a bachelor's degree in finance and international business.
Yusupova came to ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder in 1997 on a scholarship funded by her government. Only two years after learning to speak English, Yusupova enrolled at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥-Boulder and began working toward her degree. Then, at the end of last semester and only months before she was to graduate, she received notice that her government was cutting off her funding.
Fortunately, when Yusupova began her studies in Boulder, she was matched with a woman who volunteered to act as her "host family" while she lived and studied here. Typically host families help foreign students adjust to the new culture when they arrive to pursue their degrees but don't provide housing. In the true spirit of a host family, Yusupova is now living with hers and will be graduating on May 11, thanks to her host and extra loans.
She can be reached at (303) 492-6541 or (303) 449-9812.