Stanbridge College held a Favorite Charity Contest in September to choose a non-profit organization for the winter quarter’s service learning project. Students nominated local organizations & the winner was Project Hope, nominated by nursing student Summer Slim. Project Hope is a non-profit school in Orange, CA that provides the basic needs of life and learning […]
Stanbridge College, located in Irvine, California, has been recognized as one of America’s Best Technical Colleges ® by the Institutional Research & Evaluation, Inc. This recognition is based upon Stanbridge College’s very low student loan default rate compiled by the U.S. Department of Education for the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program and William D. […]
Xu Yuehua cares for children at the Xiangtan Social Welfare Institute in central China’s Hunan Province. The 55-year-old Xu, lost her legs in an accident three decades ago. She devotes herself to raising the children in the social welfare institute that sheltered her. In the past 37 years, Xu has raised over 130 children, who […]
If it were up to Dan Bell, no one in this Arkansas resort town in the Ozark Mountains would ever worry about how to pay for health care again. And these days, far fewer need to, thanks to the twice-monthly clinic he and wife Suzie, 57, started in a church gym in November 2005. Staffed […]
She was flown to a hospital in Boston where she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, also known as flesh-eating bacteria. Defying the odds, Monica survived, but many of her organs didn’t. Within four weeks, Monica’s infection had restricted the blood flow to her arms and legs and they had to amputate both arms and both […]
Narayanan Krishnan was a bright, young, award-winning chef with a five-star hotel group, short-listed for an elite job in Switzerland. But a quick family visit home before heading to Europe changed everything. “I saw a very old man eating his own human waste for food,” Krishnan said. “It really hurt me so much. I was […]