If the military perceives a safety concern in an area, they move the families out. The program serves more than 6,600 children daily. Christopher Edginton , head and professor of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services at UNI, established the program and brought it with him when he came to UNI in July of 1991. The program began to expand to its current numbers of over 3,200 students participating in the past seven summers. It offers our students a challenging, but fun, training program in a student-run atmosphere.
Students spend a half-semester in a training program, for which they earn academic credit.
Students will be mentoring two or three Ovidius University students as well as students from other Black Sea Network universities. In exchange, the students from the Black Sea region will serve as cultural guides to the UNI students. The workshop will meet four hours every day to discuss poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction written by the students. UNI students will also deliver presentations of post-World War II authors , such as Tennessee Williams, Mary Flannery O'Connor and J.D. Salinger. While in Romania, UNI students plan to visit an orphanage, tour the painted monasteries of Bucovina and interview and learn more about the Romanian Gypsy culture.