Only 3% of former foster children graduate college. Here’s how universities are working to change that

“When I was here at Cal State, I was homeless for three months,” Sharon Luisjuan said, looking west across the Cal State San Bernardino campus.

“I would go to the bottom of the bridge, right there,” she said. “There were a couple of other homeless people who I made friends with, and they’d try to help me out. They’d say, ‘Hey, go to school, go to school, go to school.'”

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