Update: The students from Laura Bovilsky and Brian McWhorter’s Performing Arts camp will be putting on their show today at 2PM in the Daugherty Dance Theater (in the Gerlinger Annex). No tickets required. KLCC has a report on this year’s program, highlighting the World Cultures camp. SAIL is focused on high…
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I’m no engineer, but it was the UVa Engineering School’s annual open house that made me want to be one. UO’s version is this Saturday: Kids from across Lane County will fill Willamette Hall with homemade rockets, lasers and futuristic machines on Saturday, March 10, for the 2018 Science and…
From the Industrial Designers Society of America website: \ University of Oregon’s Department of Product Design set SAIL in summer 2017 with a new addition to week-long programs designed to help high school students explore career paths. A product design undergraduate student in UO’s College of Design taught the next generation…
KEZI has a good if brief video report on SAIL here. KLCC has a report here, and Around the O here. SAIL is UO’s largest and most successful diversity initiative. The goal is to get more HS students that “should go to college, but are not now on the college track”…
Dear CAS Colleagues, In case you haven’t heard, I want you to be aware of an innovative fundraising campaign currently underway that will benefit two CAS programs. The campaign, called DuckFunder, is a crowdfunding approach that aims to attract lots of small gifts (and even some large ones) for very…
SAIL is UO’s largest faculty led volunteer program. Faculty teach low-SES and first generation HS students in free week long summer day-camps on the UO campus, to show them what college is like and how they can succeed at it. Last summer we had 10 camps, 200+ students, and ~100…
SAIL is UO’s faculty volunteer led program to encourage low-SES first generation students to go to college, by bringing them to campus for free summer day-camps on different academic subjects. They meet a lot of faculty and undergraduate mentors, and come back every summer during HS for a different camp, so by…
Noah McGraw has an excellent report on the work of Alfredo Burlando, in the Emerald here.
For a lower bound, let’s ignore the substantial non-pecuniary and external benefits, and just look at pay. The NYT reports: What can a college professor or staff or OA do about the later problem? Volunteer to help with UO’s rapidly expanding SAIL program.
At the annual “Stand for Children” meeting in Keizer, here.
Betsy Hammond has the story in the Oregonian. 40th out of 50 states, by the most optimistic measure. 50th out of 50 by another. What can a UO professor do to help fix this? Organize a summer UO SAIL camp for your department, to help low SES Oregon students learn…
8/5/2013: Joe Mosley has a write-up in “Around the O”.
5/28/2013: Excellent story in the Chronicle. UO’s Econ department has a smaller scale program where honors students do free economic consulting for local government agencies and nonprofits.
5/8/2013: The NYT discusses California’s extensive programs to respond to the ban on racially explicit affirmative-action programs for admissions with low SES “fill the pipeline” programs: The results of California’s efforts offer some measure of satisfaction to supporters and critics alike. Both sides hail the U.C. system’s strides toward economic —…
From the NYT: … consider two children, one from a family with income of $165,000 and one from a family with income of $15,000. These incomes are at the 90th and 10th percentiles of the income distribution nationally, meaning that 10 percent of children today grow up in families with…