From juvenile hall to a master’s degree

There’s a sign in Dr. Don Stanley’s office on campus that reads: “My job is to comfort the disturbed and to disturb the comfortable.” “I see teaching in that light,” he said. “Most of us are here for the opportunity to make a difference in somebody’s life and one of the greatest rewards I can imagine is a note or a phone call from a student years after they’ve left Lone Star College-North Harris, letting me know they’ve built a good life for themselves.”