It?s hard to believe, but the he University of Wisconsin-Madison Pre-college Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE) program is already 10 years old.
?We started in 1999 with about 66 students,? says PEOPLE program executive director Jacqueline DeWalt.?Right now, we have 1350 students in the program ? elementary through undergrad degree. For those students that have completed our program we actually have 100 percent high school graduation, and 94 percent of our students go onto higher education, with about 50-55 percent coming here to UW-Madison and another 14 percent going to other UW system schools and another 30 percent going to other universities.?