WLAIP Classes & Public Health Modules
During each component of the WLAIP program, students meet fellow classmates, staff, and alumni who are their guides, mentors, friends, and confidantes during their Wabash experience.
Cristian Cantu ’26, from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, participates in a class discussion about language and identity based on an assigned reading in Professor Jennifer Abbott’s RHE 101 class.
Juan Calvillo ’26, from the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, participates in a class discussion about education in Professor Jill Lamberton’s ENG 101 class.
WLAIP Class Tutor K’Tren Wilson ’24 (center) leads a discussion in Professor Jill Lamberton’s ENG 101 class.
Funded by Lilly Endowment Inc., WLAIP provides students of color, Pell Grant recipients, and first-generation college students with the opportunity to participate in classes and earn their first college credit before the first semester begins, gain internship experience, and more.
WLAIP participant Jeremiah Clayton ’26 and Class Tutor Jonathan Gonzalez ’24
This year’s WLAIP cohort is made up of 26 students from all over the country – some joining from right here in Montgomery County, Indiana, and others from Chicago, New York, and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
Jill Lamberton, associate professor of English and special assistant to the president for diversity, equity and inclusion
This year’s WLAIP cohort is made up of 26 students from all over the country – some joining from right here in Montgomery County, Indiana, and others from Chicago, New York, and the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
The program includes a month-long Summer Institute during which students participate in classes and complete their first college credit in either English Composition or Public Speaking.
The program includes a month-long Summer Institute during which students participate in classes and complete their first college credit in either English Composition or Public Speaking.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology Anne Bost leads a public health module class discussion about coronavirus vaccine development and distribution.
Bost’s WLAIP students were tasked with listing the different types of skills and experts needed to work together in order to successfully develop and distribute the vaccine.
Bost shows students a model of a coronavirus and explains how vaccines works.
Bost’s WLAIP students were tasked with listing the different types of skills and experts needed to work together in order to successfully develop and distribute the vaccine.
Evan Baldwin ’26 from Crawfordsville participates in a class discussion as part of the public health module.
Professor of Biology and GHI Director Eric Wetzel leads a public health module class discussion about the social determinants of health.
In addition to thinking about the value of multidisciplinary approaches, Bost and Wetzel’s modules were designed to be a stepping stone for students to think about their own gifts, talents, interests, areas of expertise and how they can grow, expand and contribute those collaboratively for the common good.
In addition to thinking about the value of multidisciplinary approaches, Bost and Wetzel’s modules were designed to be a stepping stone for students to think about their own gifts, talents, interests, areas of expertise and how they can grow, expand and contribute those collaboratively for the common good.
WLAIP students in Wetzel’s class were asked to examine and discuss some of the challenges that we all face in communities that then impact health.
Students listed out the different “actors” involved in a community’s overall health, and talked about how their interests and talents can help contribute to solutions.
Students listed out the different “actors” involved in a community’s overall health, and talked about how their interests and talents can help contribute to solutions.
Jeremiah Clayton ’26 talks about his group's notes as part of the public health module.
Bost and Wetzel’s modules were designed to be a stepping stone for students to think about their own gifts, talents, interests, areas of expertise and how they can grow, expand and contribute those collaboratively for the common good.