Xavier University of Louisiana hosts excellent opportunities for pre-collegiate and entering college students during the summer. Below is a list of programs that will be operating during the summer of 2010.
Program: Biomedical Scholar Summer Program
(Please note that you may not apply to this program. Participants are selected.)
Objective: To increase the number of underrepresented minorities who obtain careers in biomedical sciences by allowing high ability students to get a head start in college. The program would be especially beneficial to students who hope to enter medical school after their Junior year at Xavier via one of the Accelerated Premed Programs. Completing this course during the summer also makes it easier for students to take additional advanced courses or to reduce their course load during tough semesters (such as the time for MCAT preparation).
Number of Participants: 80 Eligibility: Incoming Xavier Freshmen
For more information, contact Quo Vadis Webster at 504-520-7437
Program: Business Achievers Summer Program
Objective: The Business Achievers summer program is for incoming freshmen who have been accepted for admission to Xavier as a business major. Participants enroll in the Introduction to Business course and earn three hours of college credit. The focus of the course is to improve analytical, critical thinking, and communications (oral as well as written) skills of the high-school participants so that they are better prepared for their college years. They are introduced to basic concepts of accounting, economics, finance, management, and marketing. A number of case studies and projects are completed during the course which helps in improving the above-listed skills. Local business professionals, entrepreneurs, and Xavier alumni facilitate presentations and serve as role models. Students participating in this program are encouraged to join Business Achievers Association, a student organization, and serve as leaders, thus promoting the mission of Xavier University to prepare students for leadership roles.
Number of Participants: 15-20 Eligibility: Incoming Xavier Freshmen
For more information contact Ms. Tonia Doakes, Division of Business at (504) 520-7505, or via email business@xula.edu
Program: Center of Excellence
Objective: The Summer Enrichment Program is a four-week session designed to grant a small group of high school students interested in pharmacy a broader perspective of the academic requirements and exposure to various career opportunities in pharmacy. The academic objective of the Summer Enrichment Program is to reinforce math and science concepts learned throughout the school year and introduce new content material. The program starts the first week of June and classes will be held Monday through Friday from 9:00a.m.-12:00p.m.
Number of Participants: 30 Eligibility: Rising High School freshmen, sophomores and juniors attending a school in the New Orleans metropolitan area.
For more information, contact Laticia R. Barthe’ at (504) 520-5398.
http://www.xula.edu/cop/centers-coehighschool.php
Program: EPsAR Summer Program
Objective: This is a six-week summer program designed for students targeted as having deficiencies in Mathematics. The program allows these students to remediate these deficiencies before they enroll as full-time students at Xavier in the fall. The program's outcome is to give incoming, new students with deficiencies in math the opportunity to reach the standards necessary to be able to enroll in degree-credit Mathematics courses. The goals are for these students to successfully complete the University placement test in mathematics and drastically reduce the number of students needing to take developmental Mathematics courses in the academic year.
Number of Participants: 38 Eligibility: Incoming Xavier Freshmen
For more information, contact Adrienne Hunter at 504-520-7384
http://www.xula.edu/programs/epsar.php
Program: GLOBE
GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) is a worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based science and education program. GLOBE’s vision promotes and supports students, teachers and scientists to collaborate on inquiry-based investigations of the environment and the Earth system working in close partnership with NASA and NSF Earth’s environment. Dr. Hale is a GLOBE-certified teacher.
Number of Participants/Eligibility:100 local high school students(juniors and seniors) who are members of a Future Math & Science Teachers Club
30 Stem Education Majors
20 teachers who have participated in the MSTI Program
For more information, contact Dr. Rosalind P. Hale at 504-520-7689
Program: Mardi Gras Indian Arts
Objective:The Mardi Gras Indian Arts is an intensive 8-week session that is designed for students to explore the creative process of Mardi Gras Indian traditions and the art of masking. Participants will create artworks that demonstrate imagination by comparing original Native American dress styles to the fashions of Mardi Gras Indians. Students will also use the inspiration of African Caribbean influences that have been identified within the costumes, and learn the fundamentals of Drawing and Design to construct their art.
Number of Participants: 20 Eligibility: Middle School (Ages 11-14)
For more information, contact Michelle Lavigne, Dept. of Fine Arts, 504-520-7552
http://www.xula.edu/art/community+arts/about
Program: New Orleans Urban Initiative (NOUI)
Objective: The New Orleans Initiative is a partnership between Bard College and Xavier University. It offers a unique and highly-selective 8-week program in New Orleans. The program's 20 students will investigate notions of urbanism, ecology, and social policy, both in seminar style-classes and in demanding internships. Students will be expected to take two courses and intern up to 40 hours per week.
Number of Participants: 20 Bard students, 5 Xavier students Eligibility: Bard & Xavier Undergraduates
For more information, contact Ms. Michelle Balan at 504-520-7652 http://www.bard.edu/neworleans/study/
Program: PREM PROGRAM
Objective: The main goal of the Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials (PREM) is to enhance diversity in materials research and education by stimulating the development of formal, long-term, collaborative research and education partnerships between minority- serving colleges and universities and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Materials Research (DMR)-supported centers and facilities.
Students will create collaborative research groups in nanoscale imaging systems, including research on energy, magnetic assemblies, imaging force measurements, and polymorphic materials.
Number of Participants: 5 Xavier Students, 5 High School Students
Eligibility: Xavier Freshmen-Seniors and high school rising Junior-Seniors (SOAR 1)
For more information, contact Amy Billizon, at 504 520-5329 or via email abillizo@xula.edu
http: www.xula.edu/prem
Program: STEM Scholars Summer Bridge
Objective: This five-week program is for incoming freshmen who are majoring in math, computer sciences, physics and engineering. They must be eligible to take Pre-calculus or Calculus. Students will receive college credit.
Number of Participants: 15 Eligibility: Incoming Xavier Freshmen
For more information, contact Adrienne Hunter at 504-520-7384
http://www.xula.edu/programs/HS_INFO.php
Program: Summer Science Academy
Objective: The Summer Science Academy offers four programs for high school students who have an expressed interest in science/health-related careers. Each “STAR” program introduces a content area to students BEFORE the student takes the course in high school. The programs are: MathStar-Algebra I (content); BioStar-Biology; and ChemStar-Chemistry. The SOAR1 program (for current juniors) prepares students in analytical reasoning and provides early exposure to science careers. A limited number of on campus housing is available for SOAR1 participants living outside of the New Orleans Metropolitan Area. Campus housing is not available for the “STAR” programs.
Number of Participants/Eligibility: Math Star 60 (7th and 8th Graders)
BioStar 70 (9th and 10th Graders)
ChemStar 80 (11th and 12th Graders)
SOAR1 70 (11th Graders Only)
For more information contact Dr. Timothy Glaude at (504) 520-5418, or via email xusummerscience@yahoo.com
Applications for each program will be accepted until the posted deadlines.
Program: SuperScholar/EXCEL
Objective: SuperScholar/EXCEL is an intensive four-week residential summer enrichment program that is geared toward students who are interested in pursuing college degrees in the arts, humanities, social sciences and education. All participants will learn test-taking strategies that will enhance their performance on standardized tests. Participants will take non-credit courses in Quantitative Reasoning (Math), Critical Thinking/Writing, Speech/Debate, Philosophy and African-American History. All participants must live on campus.
Number of Participants: 80 Eligibility: Rising high school seniors
For more information, contact 504-520-7633
Michelle Carter, Director, mwashing@xula.edu
Monica Majors, Program Coordinator mmajors1@xula.edu
http://www.xula.edu/gradstar/SS-EXCEL.php
Program: Upward Bound
(Note: This is a year- long program that serves students from targeted high schools in New Orleans.)
Goal: Provide opportunities to selected high school students who want to pursue careers requiring postsecondary education.
Objective 1: Academic Improvement on Standardized Test
Objective 2: Project Retention
Objective 3: Postsecondary Enrollment
Objective 4: Postsecondary Persistence
Participants: 75 High School Students from targeted schools.
Number of Participants: 75 Eligibility: High School Students form targeted high schools
For more information view our department website HERE or contact Mrs. Valerie Hicks at 504-520-7664 or vhicks1@xula.edu
Program: The Institute for Black Catholic Studies (IBCS)
(for College graduates and adults interested in church-related ministry or volunteering.)
The Institute has two major constituent parts the Master of Theology Degree Program granting a Xavier University Master Degree in Theology and the currently non-credit Certificate and Enrichment Programs (C and E) and a recently developed auxiliary Collaborative Evening Program with the Archdiocese of New Orleans Offices of Black Catholic and Religious Education.
Participants: College graduates and/or other adult Number: open registration
Website: www.xula.edu/ibcs/index.php
Program: Write N.O.W. at Xavier
Objective: This program will encourage students to explore their own creativity as it is expressed in written form. The instructors, both life-long writers themselves, will lead participants through a variety of writing exercises, some of which will move students beyond the traditional classroom setting, and will teach young writers about the “bones” of poetry (formal, free verse, and spoken word) and prose (story story, flash fiction, and creative nonfiction).
Number of Participants: 20 Eligibility: high school freshmen and sophomores
For more information go here:
http://www.xula.edu/writenow
or contact:
Katheryn Krotzer Laborde
klaborde@xula.edu
504-520-5151
Ralph Adamo
radamo@xula.edu
504-520-5245
