Photos: What it’s like to major in journalism

Two students working on a page layout for the Vidette student newspaper.

Sasic immigrated to the United States as refugees in the last 1990s and, thanks to support from multiple private scholarships, she is having a wonderful experience at Illinois State University

Too committed to fail

Richard Greenfield at Illinois State University

He almost failed the third grade. By the seventh grade, his teacher had given up on him, predicting he’d be lucky to make it through middle school. But Richard Greenfield, born with lead poisoning, never gave up on himself. On Saturday, he’ll graduate with a bachelor’s degree in politics and government. And this time, a