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![John "Jeff" Culler, 2020 CWI Graduate](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/jeff_cullers_2_as.jpg?itok=z4a-gsdT×tamp=1595525483)
“It is never too late to say YES, chase your dreams, and begin your journey of self‐fulfillment. Because of CWI, I am a college graduate."
![Photo credit: Andrew Feraci, 2015 CWI Graduate Shane Larson, 2015 Graduate](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/shane_larson_article.png?itok=npYYE9hP×tamp=1571175207)
“CWI empowered me to meet, build relationships with, and accept people from all walks of life."
![Hawley Williams, 2014 Graduate](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/hawley_williams_article.png?itok=Y-x0DoP8×tamp=1571175232)
“CWI empowered me to know my voice matters – that I matter. CWI gave me a chance to better myself and realize what I was capable of.”
![CWI alumna, Lynne Wieland](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_7603.jpg?itok=p6ptmHdj×tamp=1571175650)
College of Western Idaho alumna, Lynne Wieland, fuses her passion for skiing with an education.
![Luke Yeates, 2014 Graduate](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/mightycwi_thumbnail.png?itok=A4xo58WL×tamp=1571175798)
After dropping out of college in his early 20s and losing his job when the economy crashed, College of Western Idaho (CWI) alumnus, Luke Yeates, found himself “wrecked” and “listless”. “I had constructed what I thought was a life…it was really just a house of...
![Shauna Lileks, 2017 CWI Graduate Shauna Lileks, 2017 CWI Graduate](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_0165_web.jpg?itok=EINzr2nF×tamp=1571175849)
Shauna Lileks will graduate from College of Western Idaho (CWI) on May 13, 2017. The road to her college degree began two years after her youngest daughter, Charli, was born. Charli was a surprise, born 13 years after Lileks’s other three daughters. Lileks, who was working to start a photography business at the time, found keeping up with a little one again challenging.
![Remington Grunewald, 2017 CWI Graduate Remington Grunewald, 2017 CWI Graduate](https://cwi.edu/sites/default/files/styles/news_hero_square_breakpoints_theme_omega_cwi_mobile_1x/public/blog_ct/image/img_1236_1.jpg?itok=GxsxqqYH×tamp=1571175851)
Remington Grunewald will graduate from College of Western Idaho (CWI) on May 13, 2017. Grunewald, who began his college career as a dual credit student, discovered an unexpected interest after enrolling in a required communication course leading him to one of the best decisions he has ever made.
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The event serves as a spotlight for CWI’s nationally recognized Speech and Debate team and also celebrates graduates of the program.