Summer Academy - University of Southern Indiana

Summer Academy is back!

Summer is the perfect time for students to explore their interests! We invite high school-age students (incoming 9th grade to outgoing 12th grade) to experience the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Southern Indiana. Summer Academy will run from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday, June 2 - Friday, June 6.

Your student can pick classes from the Art and Design, Communication and Media, Geology, Psychology, Political Science, Public Administration, and English departments and more.

Fun activities, snacks and meals are all included in this week of exciting exploration.

Pricing: $150

-$25 discount for USI employees (Applied to final payment. Code to be emailed.)

-$10 discount for referring a friend (Applied to final payment upon receipt of friends application/deposit)

As a graduating senior, and returning attendee, you can be an "Academy Counselor". You will help ensure students get to the correct locations, provide session leaders with assistance as needed and be a resource to current attendees and academy staff. Interested? Click the button below.

Academy Counselor Application

2025 Classes

Screenprinting

Short Film

Threads of Connection

Dry Riverbed: Haiku

Wood Working

Podcasting

Ceramics

Yoga

Get Psyched

Mini-books

Intro to Law and Politics

Earthling 101: Be a Geoscientist!

Dishing the Tea: Afternoon Tea, Jane Austen Style

Create an Ad Campaign

Community Change

Schedule

Use the scroll bar at the bottom of the table to see what is offered each day at the Summer Academy.

	Monday	Tuesday	Wedensday	Thursday	Friday
8:30 - 8:50 a.m.	Welcome in Kleymeyer Hall	Welcome in Kleymeyer Hall	Welcome in Kleymeyer Hall	Welcome in Kleymeyer Hall	Welcome in Kleymeyer Hall
9 - 11 a.m.	Short Film	Short Film	Short Film	Short Film (10)	Short Film
	Threads of Connection	Mini-books	Ceramics 2	Ceramics 2	Community Change
	Dry Riverbed: Haiku	Get Psyched	Yoga	Dishing the Tea	Print Making
	Wood Working 1	Wood Working 1	Print Making	Social Advertising	WLC: German
11 a.m. - 12 p.m.	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
12 - 2 p.m.	Podcasting	Podcasting	Podcasting	Podcasting	Campus Tour & Reflections presentations in Kleymeyer Hall
	Ceramics I	Ceramics I	Earthling 101	Yoga	Campus Tour & Reflections presentations in Kleymeyer Hall Pick-up from Kleymeyer Hall
	Yoga	Law/Politics	Wood Working 2	Wood Working 2
	Get Psyched	Mini-books	Print Making	Dry Riverbed: Haiku
2 - 2:30 p.m.	Pick-up from Kleymeyer Hall	Pick-up from Kleymeyer Hall	Pick-up from Kleymeyer Hall	Pick-up from Kleymeyer Hall

Summer Academy Testimonial

"My daughter, Addi (right in picture), enrolled in CLA Summer Academy and absolutely loved it! She had the best time and not only that, but you just won a victory for me and for you, because now my child is interested in attending USI. While I've been working on that myself; I couldn't possibly have gotten her interest spiked the way that you did, and now she wants to audit a class on ceramics, if possible."

- Kristi Hape, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy.

Check out Summer Academy 2024

Last year, twenty-one students from high schools in Indiana and Kentucky gathered for the College of Liberal Arts inaugural CLA Summer Academy Day Camp Monday, June 3 – Friday, June 7, 2024. The Academy included classes in creative writing, psychology, art and design, leadership development and much more that introduced high schoolers to the world of the liberal arts.

Check out what our campers did during Summer Academy!

Questions?

Contact Julie Minnette, Senior Administrative Associate for the College of Liberal Arts, at jminnette1@usi.edu.