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Jun 20, 2007

"Stories serve the purpose of consolidating whatever gains people or their leaders have made or imagine they have made in their existing journey thorough the world." --Chinua Achebe

The Odyssey Project

Students in the Odyssey Project at University of Wisconsin-Madison are near the poverty level, and most are encountering higher education for the first time. As one Odyssey graduate wrote, "I would never have thought that classes in the humanities would change my life forever. I mean 'forever' without exaggeration because writing, art history, American history, literature, and philosophy transported me into a new world, where written words came alive and made magic inside my heart." The project director, UW-Madison English Professor Emily Auerbach -- whose parents both rose from poverty to attend college -- says, "This class is really about enabling people to get a foot in the door and do things that people told them they could never do."