Citizens Thinkers Writers is a tuition-free two-week summer residential program for students from New Haven public schools who are interested in exploring fundamental human questions in a college setting. In small discussion seminars led by Yale professors, they gain experience in close reading, analytic writing, and college-level discussion, along with support as they apply to college.

Non-credit

Residential

Financial Aid

Citizens Thinkers Writers offers rising seniors from New Haven public schools a tuition-free opportunity to explore fundamental moral and political questions in a college setting. Students live together in Yale housing for two weeks during the summer and continue to meet as CTW Fellows throughout their senior year of high school. In small discussion seminars led by professors, they gain experience in close reading, analytic writing, and college-level discussion, along with support as they apply to college. They are encouraged to see themselves as active participants in the long-running philosophical conversation that dates back to ancient Greece and Rome, and to link this conversation to issues of justice that arise for them today as citizens of twenty-first-century New Haven. Students bring a wide variety of political perspectives into the program and learn to turn their disagreements into civil and productive conversations. The program gives preference to students who would be the first in their immediate families to graduate from a four-year college.

The residential program aims to foster a small community of intellectually ambitious students that will outlast the two weeks of the seminar. After completing the summer program, students become CTW Fellows and continue to meet with the faculty, residential teaching assistants, and coordinator throughout the academic year. Students also receive support in the process of applying to college.

Yale University: Citizens Thinkers Writers

Jul 10 - Jul 22

2 weeks

Residential

$0

The program is tuition-free.