North Idaho College is a 2 year community college. Many people go to a junior college to get their grades back up, or up in the first place. (My niece is doing that now, after her high school grades were not good enough to get into the state university) N I C, looks to have a beautiful campus:
So transferring from there to Idaho would not really be unusual. The other school she attended, Matanuska-Susitna College, was at the time also a two year community college, where she went for a single semester. Lots of folks get homesick, especially people whose significant other is far away. Then she returned to U of Idaho, where she finally graduated.
The article says 5 schools, but only mentions 4. I think they counted U of Idaho twice.
My brother in law also attended four colleges, one of them "twice" as well. His majors were "unspecified engineering", "nuclear engineering", "mechanical engineering" and finaly, "general engineering", or something like those. He was for a long time a "consulatant" to a major company, before they decided to no longer employe such outside help. He was the last one to go too. Well he didn't exactly "go", they hired him. He makes way more than I do, even considering the high expense area he works in.