SUPER Emerging Scholars

SUPER Emerging Scholars, a set on Flickr.

This week, high-school students from across the state will converge on Auburn to participate in the Alabama Humanities Foundation’s SUPER Emerging Scholars (SES) program. Dr. Kevin Roozen, associate professor in the Department of English, will lead the weeklong residential workshop for upper-level high-school students.

The SES institute will target students’ writing, reading and critical thinking abilities by investigating the rhetoric of public discussions addressing the purposes and functions of education. Through activities, lectures and field trips, SES participants will immerse themselves in conversations about learning and schooling, as well as their roles in building society and citizens. As they hone their skills by analyzing a variety of historical and contemporary texts, participants will write their own philosophy of learning, outlining their own understanding of what learning entails and the functions it can serve them now and in the future.

“I am particularly excited to host the first SES program to be held at Auburn University, and I am looking forward to it being a huge success,” says Roozen. “The guest scholars and I have worked hard to create an experience that will involve the students in the exciting intellectual work that can occur when scholarship addresses the public's pressing issues and concerns.”

The SES institute at Auburn University is the result of a partnership between the Alabama Humanities Foundation, Auburn University Outreach Office and the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts.

For more information about the SUPER Emerging Scholars program, visit the Alabama Humanities Foundation website at www.ahf.net.