Program Description

About The Ivy Scholars Program

 

The Ivy Scholars Program offers three innovative, intensive summer educational experiences that combine college-level non-credit academic study in applied ethics, business, economics, history, international relations, law, politics, and public policy with strategic leadership and effective advocacy skills. A very select group of high school students from across the United States and around the world will learn from members of Yale’s world-class faculty, distinguished fellows, and top government and business practitioners on a wide range of issues facing national and international leaders. Over the past several years, speakers have included scholars and practitioners such as Paul Kennedy, John Lewis Gaddis, Charles Hill, Donald Kagan, Walter Russell Mead, John Negroponte, Paul Solman, Robert Dahl, Harold Koh, Jonathan Schell, Robert Schiller and others.

The Ivy Scholars programs are developed specifically for academically competitive high school students who wish to pursue undergraduate study on a campus of a top-tier university such as Yale. Students will experience academic and residential life at a top Ivy League school by living on-campus in Yale College housing, dining in the historical residential college eating halls, and most importantly, learning from Yale scholars on the subjects of their expertise in university classrooms. Library facilities at Yale are unmatched by any other high school summer leadership program with one of the largest university library collections in the world. Students will have network privileges that gives them 24/7 access during the program to Yale’s world-class on-line resources including journals, databases, and research services.

Three Intensive Academic and Leadership Development Experiences for 2012: 

 

Program in American Political Philosophy, Law, and Economics (APPLE)

8 July – 21 July 2012

  • Focus on the great ideas and thinkers in American political philosophy, democracy, constitutional law, political economy, applied economics, and financial literacy with advanced training in scholarly research methods and academic writing skills
  • Designed for rising sophomore, junior, and senior high school students as well as post-high school, pre-college students

Global Leaders Development Program

28 July – 11 August 2012

  • Focus on executive writing skills, group deliberation skills, and study of major global challenges
  • Areas of study include Global Health, International Security, and International Institutions
  • Designed for rising sophomore, junior, and senior high school students

Studies in Grand Strategy for High School Leaders

29 July – 12 August 2012

  • Focus on analytic writing skills, advocacy and persuasion skills, and the study of Grand Strategy
  • Areas of study include strategic analysis of great leaders and empires with application to today’s issues
  • Designed for rising seniors only

All three Ivy Scholars experiences are designed to challenge even the most capable college-bound, scholar-leader with a high degree of intellectual rigor, critical analysis, individual and team output, and faculty interaction.

Instructors include a range of nationally and internationally renowned scholars, post-doctoral fellows and advanced graduate students. Top undergraduate students serve as student mentors and teaching assistants.