It began with one class, as something of an experiment, and ended up saving their family thousands of dollars. This past summer, high school sophomore Shelby Callahan took one course through a program available at Campbellsville University in Louisvilleâs campus, just to see how she would fare at college-level work. The honors-level student took English 111âand came out of it wanting more.
âIt really boosted my confidence,â says the 15-year-old from Shelbyville, Kentucky. âThat English 111 class was a doozy. But after I completed it, I was dang proud of myself.â
English 111 gave way to a geology course, then to classes in sociology and the Old Testament, with studies on wellness, history, art, the New Testament, and a geology lab all on deck. All of them count toward Shelbyâs high school graduation. And all of them also count as college creditâat a fraction of the undergraduate cost, thanks to a Campbellsville Dual Credit program tha