Three sisters in 40s graduate together – RALEIGH, N.C. (UPI) — North Carolinian Valerie Noel says graduating from the University of Phoenix with her two younger sisters was the culmination of a collaborative dream. Noel said she and her sisters obtained human services/management bachelor’s degrees at the Raleigh, N.C., campus of the for-profit educational institution thanks to their ability to lean on one another in their individual times of need, The (Raleigh) News & Observer reported Sunday.”When you didn’t think you could go on, we could call on each other,”she said. “We could help each other.”