BLACKSBURG, Va., June 29 -- Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University issued the following news release:
Edward Raimundi was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Arlington, Texas. When he left for college at the University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM), no one in his family had done it before him. He did not know the people, did not have the connections, and did not have anyone to tell him how any of it worked. He was, in his own words, lost.
Moving away from home was a major adjustment, and like many first-generation students he had no roadmap for the academics, the leadership opportunities, or the resources that were supposedly there for him. He learned most of it by trial and error. What he did next led to what he does now:...