Gary Satin has just graduated with his associate's degree (in May 2020), and he's preparing now to transfer to a 4-year school to pursue medicine as a career. As a participant of ChattState's honors program, Global Scholars, Gary taken advantage of a number of on-campus opportunities. He was recently selected as a Jack Kent Cooke scholar, a prestigious award that will fund his undergraduate and graduate studies in full, as well as providing him with a supportive network of program alumni to advise and mentor him. In this episode, Gary talks about coming back to college after a few years out of school, his family's decision to move to Tennessee and the supportive environment he found at Chatt State.

Gary is a student using the Tennessee Reconnect program's funding; if you'd like to learn more about that, check out this web site: https://tnreconnect.gov/

If you're curious about our honors program, find out more here: https://www.chattanoogastate.edu/global-scholars

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Access a transcript of this episode here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hRw5C7Z1bp4wUw7g_nSDgGyzJ_AABePL/view?usp=sharing