Odyssey Project taking applications for next session

CHAMPAIGN – Plato or Van Gogh may not be foremost in the mind of the single mother of three who works in a fast-food restaurant to keep her family fed.

But officials from the Odyssey Project would like them to be.

Founded in 2000 by the Illinois Humanities Council on the premise that drawing low-income people into the humanities could offer a way out of poverty, the college-level program has been offered in Champaign since 2006.

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