You may have seen this week’s feature student almost everywhere around the RWC campus. She tutors and works in the Disabilities Office, among other activities.This is Sarah Kagrise. She has been doing both jobs now for two and a half years. Sarah explains that when tutoring she has a lot of patience and helps her students through unique methods. Sarah began volunteering in the Disabilities Office in summer 2006 and says she “loves every moment of it.”
She smiled. “My favorite part of working in the Disabilities Office,” she added, “is the simple fact that I get to share what I know with others and I also get to help parents, students and faculty.”
Sarah describes the Disabilities Office as a very personal place. “Some students have even played a major role in how my education will play out,” she said. “I get to know some students on an extremely personal level and that means the world to me.” Doing this kind of work has helped her achieve some of her goals (which she describes as her “promised land”).
Professors describe her as a strong yet silent student on campus. She is always helping those in need and never turns them away.
You may also find Sarah working with Professor Helen Kegler, the RWC Multi-Cultural Affairs Officer, with the Native American Heritage Month displays.
In addition, she helps out with the “supplies2success” program, which is designed to help those in need with school supplies.
“I began to notice that many students had to choose between feeding themselves and/or their children and the essentials,” she said. “With responsibilities that include a job, managing a home and a family, add to that, the added responsibilities that come with wanting a better life for themselves and their family, the available funds begin to run thin. In fact, many find themselves in some sort of financial black hole.”
Sarah has been a member of the UC/RWC community for quite sometime. She began attending RWC in summer of 1992. She remembers having American History with Professor Tom Minter. Her college career has been going on for about 17 years, but she is working hard at her goals, one of which is getting her masters degree in special education. Sarah wants to do this so she can work her way through law school. She’s unsure if she will actually practice but really wants that knowledge base. “That is something that I crave and can never get enough of.knowledge,” she said. With Sarah, anything is possible!