Programs

UVa student volunteers serve as mentors to local youth through Madison House partnerships with area schools, agencies, and programs.

The Youth Leadership Initiative (YLI) provides free civics and government resources to K-12 educators nationwide. YLI's engaging lesson plans and simulations are designed to motivate students to participate in the American political process.

The Young Writers Workshop of the University of Virginia, established in 1982, brings together a community of writers with a common purpose: to create a supportive and noncompetitive environment where teenagers can live and work as artists.

Founded in 1997, the Young Women Leaders Program (YWLP) is a psychoeducational mentoring program that empowers at-risk middle school girls to be leaders by combining the benefits of one-on-one mentoring with targeted group activities for a year.

The American Studies Program maintains a selective guide to internet resources for the study of American Culture(s).

In 1937, Mayo Clinic physician Philip S. Hench began a lifelong project to document the story of the yellow fever discovery. His monumental collection of manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, artifacts, and research is the source of this digital archive, the Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection.

The Writer’s Eye competition invites youth in grades three through 12, University students, and adults to submit original prose and poetry compositions inspired by selected works on view in the Museum. Area teachers and writers judge all entries. High school and University/adult entries are judged by noted authors and poets. Winners are honored at an annual ceremony in the spring and winning entries are published in an anthology.

Since 1984, the Center for the Liberal Arts has made a commitment to content enrichment for K-12 teachers across Virginia and beyond. Every year hundreds of teachers attend our programs that are offered in a wide array of disciplines, including Art and Architecture, Classics, English, French, German, History, Mathematics, Politics, Science, and Spanish.

The Workforce Development Academy provides training to the workforce development community of practitioners who support the re-engineering and re-training of America's workforce, a national priority imperative for economic stability and for continued leadership in a changing global marketplace. Dedicated to the advancement of the workforce development profession, the Workforce Development Academy offers professional development opportunities including a graduate Certificate in Workforce Development, a noncredit Certificate for the completion of the Workforce Development Professional Competencies course, professional certification, noncredit courses, and competencies training.

The WICAT Research Experiences for Teachers program in U.Va.’s Engineering School brings middle school teachers to Grounds for six weeks during the summer so that they can become acquainted with some of the most fascinating research happening at U.Va. — and bring what they learn back to their students in the classroom.