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The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

The Daily Eastern News

It’s never too late

It's never too late

Jill Peckham will graduate on Dec. 15 with a Bachelor of General Studies, 25 years after she started her college education at Parkland College. Peckham became a stay at home mom after obtaining her associate degree from Parkland and chose to continue her

It’s never too late

Jill Peckham remembers the joke, “Your mom goes to college,” from “Napoleon Dynamite.” That was the same year she returned to college after a 25-year break, but the joke meant something different to her.

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