From Dishwasher to Doctoral Student: Professor Charlie Ferguson Receives Alumni Award
There will always be brainy bookworms and virtuoso valedictorians. But that was not Charlie Ferguson. “I was a really, really, really bad student,” he admits. “Neither one of my parents graduated from high school. There was no way college was going to be in my future.”
Ferguson is receiving the Mack Easton Distinguished Alumni Award, the highest honor given by the CU Denver Alumni Board. Ultimately, he earned not one, but three university degrees—although his educational journey was uniquely circuitous. You can read the full article here.
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