{"id":130507,"date":"2022-08-10T10:54:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T14:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/?p=130507"},"modified":"2025-05-09T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T18:49:05","slug":"85-year-old-ucf-grad-earns-masters-strengthens-dedication-to-lifelong-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/85-year-old-ucf-grad-earns-masters-strengthens-dedication-to-lifelong-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"85-Year-Old UCF Grad Earns Master\u2019s, Strengthens Dedication to Lifelong Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Virginia Perwin \u201922MA<\/strong> has a lot in common with other students who received a master\u2019s degree at UCF this weekend. She likes to keep active by spending time with her family, gardening and ziplining. She engages in community work by teaching people how to read. She was a first-generation student.<\/p>\n<p>The difference is that while many students are earning their graduate degrees immediately after their undergraduate program, Perwin received her first degree about 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_130509\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\" class=\"figure float-left\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-130509\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-200x300.jpeg\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-534x800.jpeg 534w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-342x512.jpeg 342w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-267x400.jpeg 267w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-240x360.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\"><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid w-100 wp-image-130509 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20200%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20200%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-534x800.jpeg 534w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-342x512.jpeg 342w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-267x400.jpeg 267w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-240x360.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2.jpeg 800w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/20\/files\/2022\/08\/Virginia-Perwin-2-200x300.jpeg\"><figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">(Photo by Kadeem Stewart &#8217;17)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 85-year-old recipient of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/teaching-english-to-speakers-of-other-languages-tesol-ma\/\">master\u2019s degree in teaching English to speakers of other languages<\/a> has dedicated her life to learning and has no plans of ever stopping.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth child in a family of seven, Perwin struggled in primary school until a teacher recognized that Perwin had a learning disability.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grades went from C\u2019s to A\u2019s and B\u2019s because of the help I received,\u201d Perwin says.<\/p>\n<p>She wanted to be a doctor, but that wasn\u2019t an opportunity afforded to many girls at that time, so she went on to college at Temple, studying physiology and anatomy to earn a bachelor of arts in physical education.<\/p>\n<p>After teaching physical education for years while rearing a family of her own, Perwin returned to school at Florida International University to get a master\u2019s degree in adult education. And in 2017 she came to UCF to get a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/teaching-english-as-a-foreign-language-tefl-certificate\/\">certificate in teaching English as a foreign language (TEFL)<\/a>. Upon completion of that program, she realized she could apply the credits to earn a second master\u2019s degree in TESOL.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation and learning is a never-ending journey, because I have always been learning,\u201d Perwin says. \u201cI have always been in schools for something. Even when my children were small, I was teaching and doing research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kerry Purmensky, coordinator of UCF\u2019s TESOL program, and one of Perwin\u2019s professors, says that having Perwin in the class has been advantageous to other students.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVirginia\u2019s willingness to share her vast experience as a learner and teacher in the language classroom enthralled other students,\u201d Purmensky says. \u201cShe inspired everyone with her hard work and never-give-up positive attitude toward education and life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Perwin has a passion for researching the methodologies of teaching. She says she still applies the methods that helped her overcome her own learning challenges to people she teaches. She is currently teaching an adult to speak English by guiding her through a juvenile mystery book that the student\u2019s granddaughter is reading. The English learner and her granddaughter can enjoy reading and talking about the book together.<\/p>\n<p>Perwin has some words of experience to offer to students about mentorship and asking for help: \u201cIf I could tell students one thing it would be this: if you have goals and dreams, you must work with an advisor to guide you there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next on the docket for Perwin? More education, of course. She has applied for the UCF reading education program in fall. Her goal is to help people who speak other languages better learn English by using methods used in reading education.<\/p>\n<p><em>UCF\u2019s Master of Arts in teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) provides students a strong foundation in language acquisition, use and pedagogy. UCF\u2019s professors have varied research interests and thrive on working with students to develop their professionalism in the field. Current research trends in the department include vocabulary, assessment, community engagement, Russian ESOL, and sociolinguistics. Learn more about the program at <a href=\"https:\/\/cah.ucf.edu\/languages\/program\/tesol\/\">cah.ucf.edu\/languages\/program\/tesol.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always striving to learn more,\u00a0<strong>Virginia Perwin \u201922MA <\/strong>has earned her second master\u2019s about 60 years after earning her bachelor\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":130508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[15992,3],"tags":[17023],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-130507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-arts","tag-college-of-arts-and-humanities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>85-Year-Old UCF Grad Earns Master\u2019s, Strengthens Dedication to Lifelong Learning | University of Central Florida News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Virginia Perwin \u201922MA has a lot in common with other students who received a master\u2019s degree at UCF this weekend. 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