CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — From working at Walmart to save money for college to accepting admission into one of the nation’s top law schools, Skylar Clemons’ journey exemplifies the power of perseverance and an Austin Peay State University education. Clemons, a 2021 graduate in geosciences (now the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences), grew up in McMinnville, Tennessee, in what he describes as a “low-income family, well below the poverty line.” As a first-generation college student whose parents hadn’t completed high school, the path to higher education wasn’t clearly marked. “I waited four years working at Walmart just to save up to…
