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Paying it forward

For the past 55 years, Marquette’s Educational Opportunity Program has enabled low-income, first-generation students around the Milwaukee area to enter and succeed in higher education.   A federally funded TRIO program, EOP started at Marquette in 1969 with just 40 students. Currently, there are 1,300 students enrolled and more than 10,092 students who have served over…