For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school. But Sunday ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. - For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the elite Ivy ...

NEW YORK – A Columbia University custodian who could not speak English when he fled worn-torn Yugoslavia in 1992 will graduate from the Ivy League school with honors this weekend after working toward ...

If the presidential campaign is leaving you cold, with its parade of trumped-up issues, contrived speeches and dopey ads, and you’re looking for inspiration, how about this. “Nineteen years of hard ...

A Columbia University custodian finally claimed a college degree a dozen years in the making on Sunday. “I am very happy. I made it to the end. I got the bachelors degree,” said Gac Filipaj, 52, after ...

Gac Filipaj, a 52-year-old immigrant from the former Yugoslavia, came to the United States in 1992 in search of a dream — specifically, that one day his life story would form the basis for an ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - It was a special commencement day for one Columbia University graduate on Sunday morning. While cleaning the school's buildings, a 52-year-0ld janitor has been working towards ...

NEW YORK - For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee who fled war-torn Yugoslavia 20 years ago, he eked out a living working for the ...

NEW YORK — For years, Gac Filipaj mopped floors, cleaned toilets and took out trash at Columbia University. A refugee from war-torn Yugoslavia, he eked out a living working for the Ivy League school.

IT TOOK ALMOST 20 years, but this weekend a Columbia University custodian will put down his broom and dustpan just long enough to collect his sheepskin. Gac Filipaj, 52, an immigrant from the former ...

Gac Filipaj is thrilled that he graduated this week from Columbia University. "I'm still wearing the gown. I'm going to wear it for awhile," he told Tell Me More host Michel Martin just after Columbia ...