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“It was pretty darn easy to get a B.A., costs hadn’t started to go up, the market was hungry for skilled labor.”

“You just can’t assume as you once could that just a B.A. was enough. It’s what type of B.A. that you have that is driving value,” Strohl said.

In 2023, he graduated from Elon University with a B.A. in journalism, a B.A. in cinema and television arts and minors in photography and psychology.

He grew up in Hong Kong, earned a B.A. in History at the University of Chicago, and began writing for local publications like the Santa Barbara Independent and Straus News Manhattan.

The exhibition depicts other people with her genetic condition who’ve graduated from two- and four-year colleges and universities around the world, including Spain’s Pablo Pineda, 51, who left his acting career to earn a B.A. in Educational Psychology and a teaching certificate; community college graduate Kayla McKeon, 38, who — in 2017— became the first Capitol Hill lobbyist with Down syndrome; and Adam DeBacker, 27, who earned a B.S. in Theater and a recording arts graduate certificate at Missouri State University where he now works as a recording engineer.