Eliza Schaaf to Return to College

AHS student with Down syndrome was forced to withdraw from SOU class

Nearly two years after Eliza Schaaf was asked to stop attending a course at Southern Oregon University, she's finally heading back to class.

The 22-year-old Ashland High School grad, who has Down syndrome, is in her first week of classes as a student at Highline Community College in Des Moines, Wash.

Schaaf, who has a passion for art, had been taking a ceramics class as a non-admitted student at SOU in fall 2010, when she was unexpectedly told by the university that she would no longer be allowed to attend.