Nila Niroula graduated from CCA in May – but if it weren't for a program called Brother 2 Brother, he might have had to wait even longer.
Nila is a first-generation college student from Nepal and had attended CCA since summer 2012. He had taken numerous classes at CCA but wasn't sure how close he was to graduating.
With the help of Brother 2 Brother Advisor Daniel Haupt, Nila discovered that he only needed one more class to graduate.
“A program like this should be in colleges,” Nila said. “This is the program that ultimately helped me; otherwise, I would still be waiting to get my degree in fall 2016.”
Nila is one of more than 75 graduates of CCA's Brother 2 Brother, a program that is offered nationally at colleges and universities across the United States but has only been offered for two years at CCA.
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