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.
At a new Knowledge for Freedom summer program at Fordham called “Visions of the Good in the Bronx,” sixteen students from Bronx high schools spent two weeks learning about philosophy, college life, and more.
One way to expand educational opportunity is through precollege summer programs like the Knowledge for Freedom initiative, which exposes diverse, highly talented, and driven high school students to college faculty and meaningful college-level research, writing, and discussion.
Dickinson College’s House Divided Project, which examines the Civil War and Reconstruction, is hosting a college-level seminar for high school seniors to explore questions of freedom, democracy and self-government. The free, three-week program includes trips to Washington D.C., Gettysburg and the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg. It’s aimed at low-income and first generation college-bound students.