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Alumni, we want to hear from you!
Since
1932, General College has provided an open door to the state’s
land-grant public university. More than 12,000 Minnesotans from
diverse communities have gained admittance to the University and
gone on to prosper because GC saw—and nurtured—potential
that might otherwise have been lost.
Today, General College serves
as an access point to the University for high-potential students
who express a strong interest in pursuing their educational goals
at the University but may not meet the competitive admissions standards
of other freshman admitting colleges.
 General College Alumni Society
Why I love GC
William “Tex” Ostvig, B.A., 1996
Born in Mexico, adopted and raised in Minnesota, Tex feels he has been blessed. “Being accepted to the U of M was a dream come true, and I couldn’t have done it without General College. GC gave me the tools I needed to build the successful life I have today,” he said.
Tex currently works at the University of Minnesota’s Office for Urban and Educational Partnerships as director for the presidential initiative “U Connects.” He was recently named a Hero of Mentoring by the Minnesota Business Partnership, one of nine so named.
U Connects is an outreach initiative that supports the various needs of mentoring organizations in the Twin Cities and Greater Minnesota. The program has provided more than 1,300 tickets to mentors and the young people they work with, enabling them to attend “U” artistic and sporting events.
While a student at the University, Tex was a member of the Gopher wrestling team for four years, a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, vice president and president of the Minnesota LDS Student Association, marketing intern for “U” men’s and women’s athletics, University orientation leader, and two-time recipient of the President’s Student Leadership Award.
Congratulations, Tex; GC is proud of you!
 The pioneer—
Malcolm MacLean
General College is undergoing a profound transformation over the next few years, becoming a department within the College of Education and Human Development. The final issues of Access, the General College magazine, will look back at other transition points in the college’s history.
We begin at the beginning.
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