School of Business Gazette > August 1, 2003

PEOPLE Program at Business School This Summer

Eleven students from Milwaukee high schools are attending a special business school program this summer as part of UW-Madison's Pre-College Enrichment Opportunity Program for Learning Excellence (PEOPLE). The seven-week program is designed to introduce the students to university life in an effort to help them make educational and career decisions as they leave high school. Students attend morning classes that stress business and communication skills and work in internship position in the afternoons. The group has received information from representatives of all of the school's departments, including administration, the Business Career Center and the Undergraduate Programs Office. Helen Brown, accounting PhD candidate, and Judy Cary, director of the Learning Center, are leading the program. As part of their real-world experience, students have taken field trips to the Board of Trade in Chicago, Grant Thornton in Madison and to DNA, a local music-recording studio.