While being incarcerated, Luke Scott is fully seizing a new opportunity in California. At age 60, and while serving time without parole, Scott has earned eight associate’s degrees, and in 2022, a bachelor’s degree in communications, the Los Angeles Times reports. Earning the latter from Sacramento State as an inmate at Mule Creek State Prison came decades after he promised his mother, who passed away in 2011, that he would one day be a college graduate.

Esports is taking the college world by storm. Having already launched an esports team back in February, Bowie State University wants to further support its students by creating an esports gaming lab facility , alongside a new game development and design degree, the Washington Business Journal reports. The historically Black university is currently on the lookout for bids to fund the gaming lab facility. The university hopes the gaming facility will encourage more students to tap into esports, strengthen their loyalty to the university’s team by creating an exclusive space, and support the addition of an undergraduate degree in game design. “It’s all part of an effort and plans to also create a game design academic program,” university spokesperson, Cassandra Robinson, said according to the outlet. Robinson also confirmed senior academic administrator Carl Goodman is leading the efforts for the layout of the degree program that is to come.