Roger Pulliam, champion of education, mentored scores of students of color at UW-Whitewater

Roger Pulliam always believed in the power of a college degree.

After all, education was central to his own life, taking him from working with his mother and brothers in Mississippi cotton fields to earning a doctorate and spending nearly six decades empowering students of all backgrounds to do the same.

Pulliam spent 30 of those years at UW-Whitewater, where he is known best for establishing programs and student organizations that help students make it through school and earn post-baccalaureate degrees.
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