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Opinion and Commentary

Student seeks new opportunity at Dougherty Family College: St. Thomas two-year school offers low-income students a chance at college

Kelly Ordonez-Saybe, a Roseville Area High School graduate and ThreeSixty Journalism alum, says the Dougherty Family College is “giving me another chance.”  (Safiya Mohamed/ThreeSixty Journalism)
August 2017 Kai Sanchez Avila News

Safiya Mohamed contributed to this story. Kelly Ordonez Saybe didn’t get into her first college choice, the University of St. Thomas. Saybe, 18, had other… Read More

ThreeSixty Focus on . . . Gov. Mark Dayton

Members of the 2017-18 Young Women’s Cabinet pose for a photo with Gov. Mark Dayton (front, center).
August 2017 Samantha HoangLong 360 Focus, News

Minnesota’s governor talks about his high school life, his political career and the state’s diversity and inclusion efforts. In June 1968, then-college student Mark Dayton… Read More

College Essay: No longer running away

Mariah Watley, Sage Academy
August 2017 Mariah Watley College Essay

Breathing rapidly, tears streamed down my face. “I can’t do this anymore,” I say to myself. Standing up, I walk to a random person sitting… Read More

College Essay: Reading, writing and happiness

Samira Mohamed, St. Paul Harding High School
August 2017 Samira Mohamed College Essay

As a young Somali girl, the fictional worlds of “Junie B. Jones” and “Clarice Bean” were my escape. Although we were the same age, I… Read More

College Essay: Driven by my mother’s sacrifices

Pay Poe, Roseville Area High School
August 2017 Pay Poe College Essay

It was a humid summer day of my fourth year in America when I decided to apply for Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) to help… Read More

College Essay: 6,373 miles to the ‘land of dreams’

Abdulmalik Daud, St. Paul Harding High School
August 2017 Abdulmalik Daud College Essay

The people on the plane reminded me of the soccer players and cartoon characters I saw on television. It was like another world. Not many… Read More

College Essay: The value of education

Safiya Mohamed, St. Paul Central High School
August 2017 Safiya Mohamed College Essay

The scorching heat and blazing sun signified the first day of summer break in 2015. I had just completed my seventh-grade year and my report… Read More

College Essay: ‘A rainbow of identities’

Heidi Sanchez Avila
August 2017 Kai Sanchez Avila College Essay

I felt like I was in a whole new world. This was the first time I was attending a Pride event. I stopped by a… Read More

College Essay: Raising my voice and gaining confidence

Magda Abdi, Hiawatha Collegiate High School
August 2017 Magda Abdi College Essay

On a humid day in June, I landed in Boston, feeling tense. I was away from home, away from my family. I was scared. I… Read More

College Essay: ‘Wherever you come from does not define you’

Jose Popoca Palmas, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School
August 2017 Jose Popoca Palmas College Essay

When I tell people I live in north Minneapolis, their eyes often get wide. I get it. Drive-by shootings, poverty and drugs surround my block,… Read More

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