CANTON, MO. -- A group of college students will experience real poverty for two weeks this spring.

Five Culver-Stockton College students are traveling to Louisville, Kentucky as part of the Poverty, Education and the American Dream study course.

Dr. Terry Sherer, C-SC associate professor of education, is the instructor for the contemporary rural/urban America course.  

The experience is sponsored by Urban Spirit. 

During the two weeks, students are giving up all technology and comforts to live in a shelter in Louisville, Kentucky.

Students will live together as a struggling family in the shelter.

The goal is to learn what it means to live at in extreme poverty and discover what's behind the achievement gap normally found in children in low socioeconomic conditions.

What do you hope to take from this experience?

Student Corey Meyer said, "Two words come to mind - understanding and sensitivity. We don't know what's it's like to be a family in poverty."

Dr. Terry Sherer said, "It's going to be a deepening of the spirit will be significant for all of us because of situation we will be living in."

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