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“After entering the management ranks, I searched for certifications or degrees that could differentiate me from other managers,” Smith explained. “One such program was UMGC's DBA program.”

Shortly after the death of her husband due to cancer, King-Hamilton remembers sitting in the living room wondering how she was going to support two children with just a high school diploma. She said that is when she made a conscious decision to go back to school.

Graves Cater choose to major in political science because of his interest in understanding how government works “and its capacity to improve people’s lives.”

The Palm Springs, California, resident walked across the stage at UMGC’s Grad Walk to accept her Associate of Arts degree on Mother’s Day, surrounded by her family.

The new program will offer specific areas of focus, including substance use, dependency and addictions; marriage and family counseling; child and adolescent counseling; military culture and family dynamics; gerontological counseling; and sex therapy.

On April 30, at an event Milton thought was to inaugurate a conference room in honor of him and his late wife, UMGC President Gregory Fowler, had a surprise. Fowler conferred on Milton—one of the university’s oldest and most distinguished alumni—a Bachelor of Arts degree and presented a diploma and a mortar board with tassel that Milton donned with pride.