Just a few months ago, Jordan Richmond was an inmate at the Dane County Jail. “I had some unfortunate circumstances where I made bad choices,” Richmond said. He vowed to turn his life around. That’s what he’s continuing to do now that he’s out and living in transitional housing. Richmond was among one of the first seven people at the Dane County Jail to complete an online learning program known as eCornell. “I went back to class after I got out of jail,” Richmond said. “That's how much I enjoyed the program and how important it was to me.” Cornell University is the ivy league school behind eCornell. It offers more than 200 online certificate programs in things like Human Resources, Accounting and Food and Beverage Management.
