Freedom and Citizenship

10/01/2026

A summer in review: Freedom and Citizenship 2026!

02/16/2026

10/21/2025

07/25/2025

Today, Freedom and Citizenship had…a water balloon fight! We filled over 700 water bottles and our students used every single one of them — very impressive! Tomorrow our students graduate from the summer program, and this was a really fun way to begin celebrating their accomplishment!

07/22/2025

On Friday, Freedom and Citizenship visited the NYPL and toured the Treasures exhibit, which houses the Declaration of Independence as well as lots of other archival material. They also read James Baldwin on the library’s front steps where Baldwin himself wrote about visiting!

07/18/2025

Yesterday, Freedom and Citizenship was joined by our friends from Fordham for an afternoon of fun and getting to know each other. Here’s everyone playing a heated (literally, it was hot outside!) game of capture the flag!

07/17/2025

Flashback to orientation week, when our students wrote out their expectations for this summer: for themselves, their teachers, and each other. Everyday, F&C students draw on these in the seminar, in the dorms, and in everything else they do!

07/16/2025

On Friday, Freedom and Citizenship visited the Fraunces Tavern Museum in lower Manhattan for a guided tour about the building’s history and significance to the revolutionary war. They saw a bust of George Washington (cast on his face while he was alive), a lock of his hair, and, among other things, a chunk of fence from Bowling Green where the statue of King George was toppled!

07/11/2025

On Wednesday, Freedom and Citizenship got to meet the other summer program students during the CUPP summer picnic! Everyone enjoyed a cookout, ice cream, lawn games, and a raffle…the prize went to a Freedom and Citizenship student!