MEQUON -- It's a milestone day for seven students marching into Concordia University's commencement on Saturday, May 14th. The students are the first to earn certificates of applied learning from Bethesda College.
The program is a partnership with Concordia University Wisconsin and focuses on students who are intellectually or developmentally disabled.
The students take courses focused on career prep and learning to live as independently as possible.
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"College has always been a dream of mine. We weren't sure if that would ever be an opportunity and then the opportunity came and then we went for it and I was like, you know what, I'm very excited and very ready for this so I was like you know what, why not," said Kristen VanHandel, Bethesda College graduate.
Bethesda College is a two-year program.
FOX6 News is told they plan to enroll about 20 students at any given time.