From Morning Edition: Columbia University Janitor Graduates With Honors

When Gac Filipaj fled war-torn Yugoslavia in 1992, he became a refugee in New York. He took a janitor’s job at Columbia University because it included free tuition. But he first had to learn English. After a dozen years, he received a bachelor’s degree in classics over the weekend.

 

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