20 students participated in the 2000 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute. The Centennial Campaign Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Members of the Ralph Bunche Summer Insitute. Headed into its fifteen year the RBSI is an annual opportunity for promising minority undergraduates to develop their analytical, writing, and quantitative skills. The academic environment is challenging, yet supportive.
Students learn what is necessary to be successful in a graduate program and as a scholar.
Most students who attend the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute excel in their senior year and go on to graduate school, many with full graduate fellowships and teaching assistantships. A number of Institute participants have gone on to receive their masters or Ph.D. degrees, and three have already been named assistant professors at the university level. Beginning in 2001 the RBSI will be held on the campus of Duke University. Year Twenty gifted undergraduate students from colleges across the country attended the 14th annual Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at the the University of Virginia this summer. The Ralph Bunche Summer Institute invites applications from minority students between their junior and senior years of college to attend the five week Summer Institute in June and early July 2000.