First class graduates from program for adults bound for college

CHAMPAIGN – Shawnika Lucks of Urbana didn't know quite what to expect when she signed up last year for the Odyssey Project.

The Odyssey Project, in its first year in Champaign-Urbana, is a college-accredited course in the humanities offered at no cost to people in the Champaign-Urbana area living below 150 percent of the poverty level. Students attend class for two hours each evening on Tuesdays and Thursdays for an entire school year and get six hours of college credit.

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