Doctoral graduate, a 14-year cancer survivor, pushes through treatments to pursue degree

Pursuing higher education is a step on the journey to achieving a professional goal. But for Yvonne Daniely, receiving her Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and attending Liberty University’s Commencement in May — two days before undergoing her second stem cell transplant in the past four years — was so much more. Earning her degree was a personal goal she chased through her painful battle with multiple myeloma, an incurable form of leukemia.

Daniely, 67, said reaching graduation meant the world to her.

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