The Catholic University of American and the Teagle Foundation are offering rising seniors (SJC Class of 2024) an all-expense-paid, two-week residential summer program at CUA from June 25 through July 8, 2023. Potential first-generation college students are preferred, but all applicants are welcome.
The program, titled
"Knowledge for Freedom", seeks to foster encounters with transformative texts in civics and history, and offers intensive college preparation assistance. The theme for the summer of 2023 is "American Myths, American History" which examines American mythologies of Superman, the frontier, and the individual through reading authors such as Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, Willa Cather, Langston Hughes, and Maya Angelou.
Applications open on March 15, 2023.