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Registration and orientation will be March 29
Lafayette will host an 8-week spring program meant to provide a preview of the college experience and career fields for local children.
Run by the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the National Congress of Black Women, “College for Kids” exposes students ages 9-14 to a variety of career opportunities and then equips them with the knowledge to pursue those opportunities.
Registration and orientation will be 9:45 a.m.– 12:15 p.m. March 29, in Pardee Hall rooms 101 and 102B. The actual program will begin April 5. For more information or to register, contact chapter director Jean Brown at (610) 252-7099.
According to Brown, the program is open to all children living in the Allentown, Easton, Bethlehem, and Phillipsburg area, but it focuses on those raised under specific circumstances, such as with a single parent.
“The program exposes youth to a college campus to help prepare them for their future,” says Brown. “We want to plant the seed which the kids will eventually grow in to.”
The curriculum includes the arts, business, communications, government, and science. The classes will also be visited by professionals from fields as diverse as the arts, medicine, entertainment, law, and politics, as well as some Lafayette faculty and staff.
“We show the students the process and educational requirements you have to go through in order to become a lawyer, or an artist, or an investment banker,” says Brown. “Some of the students we encounter look at high school as the end of their education, but we want to change that mentality.”