Opening Day, July 6,2026: Tentative schedule is below (but is subject to change)
10:00 a.m. - Noon
Registration in lobby of Allen Center
Receive the key to your dorm room, move your stuff in, make a shopping run, stroll around campus, and chat with WLAIP staff and other WLAIP participants and parents.
***Make sure to gain access to your vaccination record and either email it to amidonc@wabash.edu or bring it with you to registration.
Noon:
Opening Luncheon: W Club of Little Giant Stadium
We will open WLAIP's Summer Institute with lunch and some short comments by College administrators.
End of Lunch - 1:45 p.m.:
Introduction to the WLAIP Summer Institute (Baxter Hall, room 101)
Institute Coordinators and Staff will discuss the goals of the Institute. Faculty and student staff will introduce themselves and describe their roles in the institute.
2 - 2:30 p.m.:
Introductions and Questions
We will ask each student/family to introduce themselves to the group and then will take questions about the program, the summer institute, life at Wabash, or anything else.
2:40 - 3:30 p.m.:
Continued Conversations
Parents will talk with directors of and mentors in the program about WLAIP and about Wabash (Baxter 101)
Students will do team-building activites with Wabash Rhetoric faculty person Chris Anderson (Location TBD, weather-dependent)
3:45 - 4:50 pm.: TOURS:
Meet in the Lobby of Baxter Hall.
Option #1: Walking tour of campus
Option #2: Walking tour of Crawfordsville
5 - 6 p.m: Dinner at grub hollow
6 - 7 p.m.:
Hugs and Goodbyes
(all parents, family, and friends are asked to depart by 7)
Parking
Parking is avaliable in large parking lots across from the tennis courts on Milligan St. Check-in will be in the lobby of the Allen Center, next to Chadwick court (our basketball court, which is #22 on the map below).
