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WLAIP Classes & Public Health Modules

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During each component of the WLAIP program, students meet fellow classmates, staff, and alumni who are their guides, mentors, friends, and confidantes during their Wabash experience.

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Cristian Cantu ’26, from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, participates in a class discussion about language and identity based on an assigned reading in Professor Jennifer Abbott’s RHE 101 class.

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Juan Calvillo ’26, from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, participates in a class discussion about education in Professor Jill Lamberton’s ENG 101 class.

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WLAIP Class Tutor K’Tren Wilson ’24 (center) leads a discussion in Professor Jill Lamberton’s ENG 101 class.

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Funded by Lilly Endowment Inc., WLAIP provides students of color, Pell Grant recipients, and first-generation college students with the opportunity to participate in classes and earn their first college credit before the first semester begins, gain internship experience, and more.

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WLAIP participant Jeremiah Clayton ’26 and Class Tutor Jonathan Gonzalez ’24

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This year’s WLAIP cohort is made up of 26 students from all over the country – some joining from right here in Montgomery County, Indiana, and others from Chicago, New York, and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

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Jill Lamberton, associate professor of English and special assistant to the president for diversity, equity and inclusion

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This year’s WLAIP cohort is made up of 26 students from all over the country – some joining from right here in Montgomery County, Indiana, and others from Chicago, New York, and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.

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The program includes a month-long Summer Institute during which students participate in classes and complete their first college credit in either English Composition or Public Speaking.

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The program includes a month-long Summer Institute during which students participate in classes and complete their first college credit in either English Composition or Public Speaking.

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Anne Bost leads a public health module class discussion about coronavirus vaccine development and distribution.

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Bost’s WLAIP students were tasked with listing the different types of skills and experts needed to work together in order to successfully develop and distribute the vaccine.

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Bost shows students a model of a coronavirus and explains how vaccines works.

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Bost’s WLAIP students were tasked with listing the different types of skills and experts needed to work together in order to successfully develop and distribute the vaccine.

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Evan Baldwin ’26 from Crawfordsville participates in a class discussion as part of the public health module.

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Professor of Biology and GHI Director Eric Wetzel leads a public health module class discussion about the social determinants of health.

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In addition to thinking about the value of multidisciplinary approaches, Bost and Wetzel’s modules were designed to be a stepping stone for students to think about their own gifts, talents, interests, areas of expertise and how they can grow, expand and contribute those collaboratively for the common good.

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In addition to thinking about the value of multidisciplinary approaches, Bost and Wetzel’s modules were designed to be a stepping stone for students to think about their own gifts, talents, interests, areas of expertise and how they can grow, expand and contribute those collaboratively for the common good.

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WLAIP students in Wetzel’s class were asked to examine and discuss some of the challenges that we all face in communities that then impact health.

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Students listed out the different “actors” involved in a community’s overall health, and talked about how their interests and talents can help contribute to solutions.

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Students listed out the different “actors” involved in a community’s overall health, and talked about how their interests and talents can help contribute to solutions.

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Jeremiah Clayton ’26 talks about his group's notes as part of the public health module.

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Bost and Wetzel’s modules were designed to be a stepping stone for students to think about their own gifts, talents, interests, areas of expertise and how they can grow, expand and contribute those collaboratively for the common good.


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