Sampson Buie, Jr. (1929- ) received his master's of education degree in educational administration in 1973 and his doctorate in education in 1982 from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG). Buie describes working on his graduate degrees part time, his campus experiences as a minority and as a male and the faculty support he received. He discusses spending a semester at the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro and being a student at UNCG at the same time as his daughter.