{"id":169914,"date":"2026-10-23T09:25:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=169914"},"modified":"2026-10-23T09:25:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:25:52","slug":"finding-the-wright-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/10\/23\/finding-the-wright-path\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding the Wright Path"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Monica<\/a>

Monica Sewell transferred from Sinclair Community College to Wright State, where she earned her degree in social work. She\u2019s now pursuing her master\u2019s degree. (Photos by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n

Transfer students often wonder which of their credits will count. When Monica Sewell \u201926 transferred to Wright State, she had that information locked in.<\/p>\n

Sewell transferred from Sinclair Community College through the Wright Path Program<\/a>, earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in social work<\/a> and will now finish her master\u2019s degree in just one year.<\/p>\n

But it was a long road to get there. Sewell, 46, earned a GED and spent years managing restaurants, convinced that was her ceiling without a degree.<\/p>\n

After her family experienced a tragedy, she attended counseling with her children and was surprised to learn that their counselor was a social worker. When she thought of social workers, she had only considered jobs like caseworkers or working for children\u2019s services.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know social workers could do counseling,\u201d she said. \u201cI looked into it, and I was like, \u2018This is what I want to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

She had tried college once before, at 22, and quit after a class or two. One big reason was that she was reluctant to ask for help when she was struggling with the technology.<\/p>\n

This time around, she offered herself more grace and asked questions when she had them. That\u2019s how she found the Wright Path Program.<\/p>\n

\"Monica<\/a>

Monica Sewell hopes others can learn from her experience, and she\u2019s now the one helping students find the Wright Path Program.<\/p><\/div>\n

During her first semester at Sinclair, she passed the program\u2019s table between classes and took a pamphlet. By her second semester, she had stopped to talk. Then she was set up with an advisor at Wright State and entered the program.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t wait for other people to tell me answers anymore,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The Wright Path Program links Wright State with Sinclair and other area community colleges, so transferring is easier and brings a bachelor\u2019s degree within reach for more students.<\/p>\n

\u201cSinclair and Wright State literally work together to make that transfer as easy as possible so that you know exactly what classes you need and what is and is not going to transfer over,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Advisors at both schools helped her get everything lined up for success.<\/p>\n

In fact, Sewell\u2019s Wright State advisor became one of her biggest assets. For her first three semesters at Wright State, they registered for classes together.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy advisor said, \u2018I\u2019ll help you \u2014 I don\u2019t want you to miss a class because something went wrong,\u2019\u201d and Sewell explained how important that was to her. \u201cIf you go in to register and something\u2019s wrong, advisors have the ability to fix it \u2014 they know the people to work with.\u201d<\/p>\n

The program also offers a $1,000 scholarship, which \u201cYou literally just sign up,\u201d Sewell said, explaining how easy it was to apply for the scholarship. \u201cThey don\u2019t require anything of you, but you can do so much with it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

For Sewell, that included joining Tau Sigma, a national transfer student honor society<\/a> after excelling in her first semester at Wright State. Now she\u2019s one of the people at the table, talking with prospective transfer students in the five partner schools (Cincinnati State, Clark State, Edison State, Sinclair and Southern State) about how the Wright Path Program can help them earn their degree.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know what resources were available to me, and I want to help provide that information to other students so they know they can succeed,\u201d she said. \u201cIf I can do this at 46, anything is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After returning to college at 46, Monica Sewell found a clear roadmap to her degrees through Wright State\u2019s Wright Path Program \u2014 and now she\u2019s helping other transfer students find their way. Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":170019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,733,2048,2060,744,725,715,4889,2089,4298,2061],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-enrollment-management","category-graduate","category-education-human-services","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news","category-social-work-social-work-human-services","category-social-work","category-student-profile","category-undergraduate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169914"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170051,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169914\/revisions\/170051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}