| Show College president There are no limits to older students' students potential potential CPS I IN N 1964 Rita Bornstein Bernstein started performing one of the most chal challenging juggling acts of the as a working woman raising two children while attending college as a nontraditional nontraditional nontraditional non- non traditional student Today almost three decades later Born Bernstein's Bernsteins tein's work is college The year old president of Rollins College College Col Col- lege in Winter Park Fla now finds herself in inthe inthe inthe the position of dealing frequently with the needs of a growing student population with which she can readily empathize empathize older older r stu stu- stu dents Although she had her first child at the age of 20 Bornstein said she never gave up the idea of returning to school to earn a college degree I always felt very strongly about it it a t s she t i At JI JIt t the e a age of 2 28 I s started a ted taking courses courses slowly I r basically illy juggled d that than h f with my children she said Bornstein earned her bachelors bachelor's and masters master's degrees from Florida Atlantic University University sity in English literature Then she taught and worked as an administrator in the Miami school system for three years She he later returned to the University of Miami and graduated with her PhD Ph.D. in educational leadership at the age of 39 At the University of Miami Bornstein began building an impressive resume tI that at included a year five-year raising fund-raising campaign that secured million for the school In reflecting on her own educational difficulties difficulties difficulties dif dif- dif dif- Bornstein offered this advice to young women women Dont get married first Develop yourself as a person first If y YOU u cant can't she said then do what you can to get the education because its it's a trans life forming experience |
