The son of Kenyan immigrants, he thought it would save him time and money when he enrolled at the University of Chicago and transferred his credits.
Instead, he learned a hard lesson in college economics: The university told him none of the two-year associate degree credits would count toward his bachelor’s degree.
“Zero,” Kimani said on a recent morning, recalling the blunt email he received from college administrators in Chicago. It “was quite painful because I feel like the degree that I worked towards was a lot of work — a lot of effort.”
