Classes, camps, conferences – summer at CSUMB
On foggy summer days, CSU Monterey Bay's campus seems quiet, but there's really a lot going on.
Conferences, teacher training programs, Upward Bound and other outreach activities for high school students, reading camps, sports camps, swimming lessons, classes . . . it's all here.
New this summer are classes in science illustration, open to the community, and a scientific diving class offered by CSUMB and Moss Landing Marine Labs.
There are several opportunities for high school students as well.
The Imagine College Summer Scholar Institute, a grant-funded program for students from Monterey, Seaside and Marina high schools, returns for its fourth year at CSUMB. Starting in mid-June, attendees can choose to take classes in Android programming or filmmaking.
Students from North Monterey County High and schools in the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District are attending the Summer Enrichment Academy, where they take algebra and geometry classes part of the day and participate in leadership development activities in the afternoons. A total of 280 high school students are on campus in these two programs alone.
Teachers will also be here during the summer, attending their own "camp." The Pacific Advanced Placement Institute will hold its annual summer program at CSUMB for the second straight year. More than 220 high school teachers will learn best practices in teaching advanced placement art history, biology, calculus, Chinese, Japanese, physics, studio art and other courses.
The sports-minded set – from third graders to high school seniors – will be on campus throughout the summer attending baseball, softball, volleyball, basketball, water polo, soccer, golf and lacrosse camps. Most of the camps are run by the university's athletics department; a few, such as lacrosse and softball, are run by outside companies.
Swimming lessons are also available at the university's aquatics center.
The Center for Reading Diagnosis and Instruction will offer camps of another kind. This summer, weeklong reading camps are scheduled for June and August for kindergartners through eighth-graders. And the center is offering summer tutoring sessions throughout June and July.
Girls, Inc., an organization that encourages healthy, smart choices in food and life, will be on campus for a week in mid-June.
Upward Bound will host 50 high school students through July. The students will take college-level classes, learn about the college application process, and spend a week visiting other college campuses.
New-student orientation for freshmen and transfers will bring hundreds of students and their parents to campus in June.
And the campus is getting spruced up during the summer. Some of the buildings are getting fresh paint, new carpeting is going in one of the residence halls, several structures are coming down, and work will start on a new roof for the University Center.
By mid-August, it will be time to gear-up for the fall semester, which will starts Aug. 22. Students will move into the residence halls Aug. 19-21.
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