Guest column: Graduate Memphis helps adults complete college

By David Williams, Special to The Commercial Appeal

Special to Viewpoint, The Commercial Appeal, July 4, 2012

On Monday (July 2) Leadership Memphis launched Graduate Memphis — a free college resource center that will help Memphis-area adults return to college. Designed to have a historic impact on the future of our city and funded through the generosity of the Plough Foundation, Graduate Memphis will offer the 202,000 adults living in the Memphis area who started college but never finished access to professional advisers who will help them complete their higher education.

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