{"id":2687,"date":"2016-06-23T12:31:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T12:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2023-06-08T19:53:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:53:12","slug":"oldest-grad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/23\/oldest-grad","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Never too late\u2019 attitude for 67-year-old grad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n      <figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest-grad.jpg\" alt=\"oldest grad\" class=\"wp-image-28354\"><\/figure>\n\n          <p>\n\tWhen she decided to return to school in her mid-60&#039;s, Elizabeth Huffaker was worried she would be met with a &ldquo;What are you doing here?&rdquo; attitude. But that didn&#039;t stop her from a long overdue college education. What she found at the University of Washington Bothell was quite the opposite.<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\tInstead, &ldquo;I met so many young people who treated me as equals and at the same time respected me,&rdquo; she says.<br \/>\n\t足彩app哪个是正规的s she met in a first-quarter class remained friends throughout her time at UW Bothell.<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\tHuffaker completed work in December for a bachelor&rsquo;s degree from the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences. 足彩app哪个是正规的 67-year-old is the class of 2016&rsquo;s oldest grad.<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\tHuffaker says her major in society, ethics and human behavior answered some questions she had had since growing up and living in Minnesota, Baltimore and Washington, D.C.<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\t&ldquo;足彩app哪个是正规的re I lived a safe suburban life while the equal rights, women&#039;s and AIDs epidemic movements happened around me. Without a historical perspective, I instinctively believed in human rights but did not understand the daily experience of being diverse in the United States,&rdquo; Huffaker says.<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\tHer interests were largely put aside while she raised a family &ndash; as a single mother after her divorce. Later in life, after cancer treatment, she decided &ldquo;it was time to do what I wanted &ndash; go back to get my degree.&rdquo;<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\t&ldquo;When I read the UW Bothell&#039;s information on the society, ethics and human behavior major and human rights minor, I knew it would perhaps answer some of the questions I had from my early years,&rdquo; she said.<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\tAt UW Bothell, Huffaker found support from &ldquo;young women of diversity who welcomed and accepted me.&rdquo;<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\t&ldquo;I was amazed at their open honesty,&rdquo; she said.<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\tHuffaker also has particular appreciation for three professors: Julie Shayne, Bruce Kochis and Alice Pedersen.<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\t&ldquo;足彩app哪个是正规的 challenges of their high expectations took me beyond my self-inflicted limitations,&rdquo; says Huffaker, who graduated cum laude.<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\tHer &ldquo;never too late attitude&rdquo; is something Huffaker taught her own children.<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\t&ldquo;You&rsquo;re not locked into any one thing, one identity, one job,&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;As you change, you can change.&rdquo;<br \/>\n\t<br \/>\n\tHer advice to other people who are considering earning a degree later in life is, &ldquo;Go for it!&rdquo;<br \/>\n\t&ldquo;If you are open to it, you will learn a lot from the younger students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tWhen she decided to return to school in her mid-60&#039;s, Elizabeth Huffaker was worried she would be met with a &ldquo;What are you doing here?&rdquo; attitude. Instead, at University of Washington Bothell, &ldquo;I met so many young people who treated me as equals and at the same time respected me,&rdquo; says Huffaker, the class of 2016&rsquo;s oldest grad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202,200,204],"tags":[],"school":[],"class_list":["post-2687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-news","category-profiles","category-students"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":null,"link_2":null,"link_3":null,"link_4":null,"link_5":null},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":null,"button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Never too late\u2019 attitude for 67-year-old grad - News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/23\/oldest-grad\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018Never too late\u2019 attitude for 67-year-old grad - News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When she decided to return to school in her mid-60&#039;s, Elizabeth Huffaker was worried she would be met with a &ldquo;What are you doing here?&rdquo; attitude. 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