Yale University S.C.H.O.L.A.R. Program

OVERVIEW

S.C.H.O.L.A.R. is a three-week summer science residential program for Hill Regional Career High School students entering grades 10 through 12. Sixty-five students stay Sunday through Thursday on the Yale University campus and study in Yale's libraries and laboratories.

In 1996 Hill Regional Career High School and Yale University's Schools of Medicine and Nursing signed an educational partnership. The partnership recognized the University's leading role in life science research and is a natural extension of Yale's own educational mission. It pledged to make the resources of the University available to the faculty and students of the High School.

Over the years faculty members from New Haven High Schools and Yale University have worked together to revise and realign the science courses, create new course offerings and internships, and design and implement S.C.H.O.L.A.R.

The participating high school sophomores are introduced to genetics and developmental cell biology concepts, while juniors, many of whom are at Yale for their second summer, study chemistry using Yale's new 250-gallon salt-water tank. Seniors perfect their laboratory skills in the morning and work on college applications each afternoon. Students work in small study groups of seven students per teacher.

Faculty from Yale University and the New Haven Public Schools jointly staff the program. All courses use Problem Based Learning (PBL) instructional methods. Program activities include:

• Small study groups
• Chemistry
• Molecular Biology
• Research Experience
• Pre-Med. Mentors
• S.A.T. Preparation
• College Counseling
• Field Trips
• Athletics

For further information about the S.C.H.O.L.A.R. Program contact:

Yale University School of Medicine
Office of Multicultural Affairs
(203) 785-7515

Yale University
Office of New Haven and State Affairs
(203) 432-4098

Graduate and Undergraduate students may apply for a job in S.C.H.O.L.A.R.

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