Kimberly Trump comes from two Waynesburg alumni, so the choice wasn’t difficult on where to go after high school. 

“My parents met here actually,” Trump said. “My dad came here as a freshman, my mom transferred her sophomore year into nursing. So they met, then my older sister came here, she was a Stover Scholar before I was, that’s how I applied for the scholarship, so Waynesburg’s been a family thing.”

A psychology major, Trump has had many unique experiences on campus and elsewhere. 

“I switched majors sophomore year,” Trump said. “I started prelaw, then I switched into psych, which has been great. We did an experiment, so we had to figure out how to format the entire thing, like gathering research and then making a manuscript and making a script to reach the students who were coming in to do the experiment, leading that, learning how to run the data. Then we took that research to a conference and presented it, which was awesome.”

Trump also elaborated on one of the other major commitments she has found herself in since arriving at Waynesburg University.

“Stover is probably the biggest [extracurricular]. That’s what takes up most of my time, that involves a lot of different things. Usually it’s having luncheons with people. Dr. Stratton has this massive network of people that he knows, so he’ll bring in speakers, we listen to them, ask questions, which is helpful in forming connections in the workplace. We also do a trip to Washington D.C. every year, this year was awesome. I got to meet with one of the Supreme Court Justices, which was really cool, so Stover has just been a lot of opportunities.”

And even though Trump comes from a family full of Waynesburg graduates, she also feels she’s built a ‘second family’ in her own time at Waynesburg University. 

“I feel like Waynesburg has just become a second home,” Trump said. “I love my family back home, but I am here every weekend. I don’t really go home very much because I have such a good community of people that I want to spend time with here, which I think is universal to Waynesburg. It’s just a really great community of people who want to support you, whether it’s your friends or the staff, even like Patty at Starbucks, she wants you to have a good day. I think everyone is just trying to uplift everyone else, and I don’t think that’s common to a lot of universities.”