As UNT Dallas celebrated 2024 graduates this week, one of their seniors made university history.Malik Childs is the first man in his family to graduate from a four-year university and the first UNT Dallas student to apply and be accepted into what's called the Joint Admission Medical Program."It was really exciting, you know, because I've been working on this for four years, really longer than that because i've always had a dream of graduating college," said Childs.
Malik's been accepted to medical school at the UNT Health Science Center at Fort Worth."I knew I wanted to help people, for sure, I knew that for a fact," he said.Helping others is something Childs is familiar with, volunteers at the Stew Pot serving and helping the homeless.When his father became very ill, it piqued his interest in medicine.