George Fox University’s Liberation Scholars program offers offers first-generation Latino/a students entering their senior year of high school the opportunity to study great philosophical, political and literary texts while experiencing a taste of college life.
Teagle Foundation grant establishes new pre-college initiative aimed at first-gen, rural students. The University of Mississippi is using a $300,000 grant from the Teagle Foundation to help underserved students experience and investigate the Good Life.
Yale’s Citizens Thinkers Writers program introduces New Haven high school students to foundational texts — and connects their ideas to the present.
Purpose and Power: Women Shaping History, a Knowledge for Freedom program, will bring a cohort of high school women to the Hollins University campus during the summer of 2023 for an intensive two-week seminar to explore questions about freedom and agency with an emphasis on the lives of women.
Henry Seyue, an alumnus of Citizens, Thinkers, Writers, a Knowledge for Freedom program at Yale University, read the Langston Hughes’ poem “I, Too” at the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.
Henry Seyue, a Knowledge for Freedom program alumnus, was chosen to read a poem at the Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities because he exemplifies how a grounding in liberal arts enables us to study humanity’s deepest questions, wrestle with difficult topics and serve as thoughtful, engaged citizens.
The Academy of Civic Life (ACL) at Stony Brook University offers high school students a real college experience, living on campus and attending a rigorous three-week seminar.
Four students share their experiences at Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship program in summer 2022.