Each summer, the campus buzzes with all kinds of educational activities for children, adults, and other non-traditional learners. Young ballerinas warm up in pink tights. Kids file out of Foster Auditorium dribbling basketballs. Cheerleaders pour out of residence halls each morning, clapping and jumping en route to Coleman Coliseum. Youngsters unload from buses in front of UA's Museum of Natural History, wet and dirty from searching out life in a pond.
Kids converge with soccer balls, footballs, softballs, baseballs, musical instruments and computers.
Teachers come to take classes to enhance their own teaching next year. We want to serve all of these people in every way we can. Seeing is believing. More than 10,000 young people booked space in University housing to participate in this summer's outreach activities, not including adults, local young people, and those whose programs didn't require an overnight stay. Conservative estimates indicate that participants in UA summer programs number well over 20,000.