Paideia Application for First-year Students

Application

The Paideia Application for First-year Students is available for submission as of February 1.

Deadline is March 1

First-year students that are interested in Paideia during the academic years of 2012-2015 need to complete an application. The Call for Paideia Applications will be sent February 1, 2012. The application deadline is scheduled for March 1, 2012. All students that submitted applications will be notified by April 1, 2012.

Two Reference Forms must also be submitted.  The Reference Forms must be completed by a Southwestern University faculty member, staff member, and/or student.  Each applicant is required to submit two completed Reference Forms from two different individuals. Remember to print two copies.

Writing Your Essay

In the Paideia Program, groups of ten students from different academic areas work together and with one professor for six semesters.

During those semesters students and their professors bring together shared readings and experiences from a variety of academic and civic areas. Through conversation, writing, and varied activities, students and their professors explore the connections between their respective academic work and their shared public life. Students should be intellectually curious, willing to “stretch” themselves, and open to an enhanced liberal arts experience.

Please consider these aspects of the Program, as well as what kind of experience you hope to have in the Program, while writing your application essays.