21st Century Scholar

In our third week of SummerTIME, we had five considerably different presentations on vital class room equipment, necessary tools essential for college success.  It is in accordance to say that we did not have any prior knowledge to these sessions.  Our first presentation was given by Professor Bill Tierney.  He told us about facts in regards to college [...]

During the first day of college knowledge we learned about the importance of getting involved in campus. Jonathan Mathis advised us about joining clubs and told us to stay aware of clubs that are not recognized by the school. The following day he told us about time management, and how it is important to keep a [...]

SummerTIME for the past one week has been quite enriching.  The discussions  and preceding readings involved the issues of sexual orientation, rape as a term used  to describe the forceful penetration of one’s ideas into another culture, and gender violence.  We had the opportunity to explore why and how many women, and sometimes even men, experience  violence. Even [...]

This week the program really emphasized its four fundamental aspects: tools, information, motivation, and education.  Our readings switched from African-American critics to those of Mexican and Chicano decent.  These readings were responses to first wave Chicano activists and their movement.  The readings focused specifically on machismo and femenismo and their complex relationship.  Traditionally these two [...]

This week was very exciting, even though I missed two days for orientation at my school. We went over our rough drafts with our instructor individually, while getting advice of how to improve our writing skills. We also learned how to link paragraphs together with great transitional sentences. We are also assigned a writing counselor [...]

This second week in SummerTIME has been an even more intense period. We shifted  from discussions on the issues that affect African American  and Latino people within the country to an explicit review of other marginalized people. This week we studied the Chicana women and their fight for liberation from a society that essentializes different [...]

Our first day of SummerTIME was on July 1, 2009. I remember waking up and thinking to myself “Why am I going to ruin my summer with this program?  I should be sleeping in like everybody else.”  Just then it occurred to me, in life, I cannot conform to cultural norms – sleeping in during [...]

This first full week in SummerTIME has been great. I’ve meet many new and exciting people, and the instructors are awesome. The instructors are very patient and are motivated everyday. Unlike school, your fellow students are constantly participating and having great discussions. Although SummerTIME sounds like fun, it has its challenging parts. The essay prompts [...]

The past week at SummerTIME has been one of my most intense learning experiences. The program seeks to prepare high school students for college writing. I have learned to identify different passages in a text  that can be vital in any discourse, a skill that was previously unrefined in my colleagues and I. We have also learned to [...]

The Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis operates SummerTIME. The program is a month-long intensive writing seminar designed for high school seniors entering a four-year college or university in the fall. Students attend daily writing seminars, conferences with writing tutors, and engage in “college knowledge” workshops on issues relating to college enrollment, such as financial [...]