One-on-one with Antoinette Modrak, a former graduate, and principal of Linden High School, New Jersey, who has been in education since 1993.

For years on end, women were excluded from higher education institutions. The 1600s saw Mary Cavendish's call for equal education.

Year after year, many young school adults and their families will be thinking ahead to the exciting, life-changing journey for those beginning their freshman year of college.