Amid defunding of the Department of Education, nearly $2 million of funding was renewed for the University of the Pacific in Stockton – specifically for students who are the first in their family to attend college.
Success TRiO, UOP’s federally funded student educational opportunity program, says this money will change lives in Stockton.
“I’ll be the first in the family to finish my bachelor’s degree,” said Sounie Proeung-Sok, a senior at Pacific…