The Ulysses S. Grant Foundation is a 6-week academic summer program for highly motivated middle school students who are enrolled in public and parochial schools in New Haven, CT. A team of Yale undergraduate teachers, through courses in the humanities, investigations, electives and group activities, helps students acquire skills to excel in their current school environment and in college.

Non-credit

Commuter

Financial Aid

The Ulysses S. Grant Foundation is a 6-week academic summer program for highly motivated middle school students who are enrolled in public and parochial schools in New Haven, CT. Each summer a team of Yale undergraduate teachers, through courses in the humanities and investigations and through electives and group activities, help students acquire the academic preparation and skills they will need to excel in their current school environment and to enter and succeed in college. The program is designed to support all students, including those who might have limited opportunities and resources, and to allow them to build a community of learners and participate in academic enrichment activities over the summer.

Lower-Grade Courses
Humanities:
Moral of the Story: Greek Myths, West African Folktales and the Art of Storytelling
Everything in the World, I Guess: The United Nations and Current Events

Investigations:
What’s So Hard About Life on Earth: The problems with our planet’s habitats… and how animals solve them!
Vaccines: The Past, Present and Future

Upper-Grade Courses
Humanities:
Everything in the World, I Guess: The United Nations and Current Events
What Would You Do: Ethics for the Modern World

Investigations:
Climate Change: What it is and What to Do
Is This The Real Life (is This Just Fantasy): Perceptions and illusions in the world around us

Each day, students take three classes. In the mornings, students take Humanities and Investigations classes with their grade-level peers. In the afternoons, students take elective courses that they have chosen in mixed grade-level groups. All classes are 7–14 students. Yale students design these creative courses based on the subjects and issues they are passionate about, topics of study that are rare in the traditional public school setting.

First, a humanities course about topics such as art, writing, poetry, philosophy.
Second, an investigations course about topics such as biology, chemistry, finance, architecture.
Lastly, students choose two elective courses to take, one on M-W and another T-Th.

Ulysses S. Grant Program

Jun 26 - Aug 03

5 weeks

Commuter

75 USD

The program costs $75 to attend, and full scholarships are available.