Credit. All students in the program must be full-time participants. Students participate during either the fifteen-week Fall Semester, the fifteen-week Spring Semester, or the the ten-week Spring Term. Successful participation earns each student full pass/fail credit in an accredited transcript from Ohio Wesleyan University.

Students also participate in the required area studies and intern thirty to forty hours per week with professionals in a work placement complimentary to their academic/ career goals. All participants are required to keep a journal. Ohio Wesleyan University awards credit to each successful participant.

Although the program faculty advisor, the student, and the sponsor submit final written evaluations, the recognition and integration of the credit into the home campus curricular structure rests exclusively with the appropriate personnel at the student's home campus.

Costs. Tuition for the program fluctuates and is determined by costs incurred in New York. Tuition payments are made through the home campus. All additional costs of transportation, housing, meals, etc, are the student's personal responsibility. Each student receives a weekly stipend to help defray some of these costs. (Stipend payments are made twice during the semester/term provided students' accounts are current.)

Housing. The program offices are housed in our mid-town Manhattan townhouse where meetings also take place. It is in Chelsea, a convenient and safe neighborhood. Four floors are for student housing with communal kitchens and lounges, with most rooms arranged and furnished as dormitory twins. There is a Program Coordinator for Registration and a resident Housing Manager to supervise housing and the student resident advisors.

Each student is assigned an academic advisor based on their application goals. This faculty member teaches an area study and works closely with the student and their apprenticeship sponsor.

Alvin Sher, Program Director, Visual Arts Academic Advisor

Dana Tarantino, Academic Advisor in Theatre and Writing

Peter Zummo, Academic Advisor in Music, Dance and Media

Emilie Clark and Gerry Griffin, Academic Advisors in the Visual Arts

Contact Jesse Koskey, the Program Coordinator, for registration and general information. There is also a resident Housing Manager to supervise housing and the student housing resident advisors.

The Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. is an academic consortium of twelve independent liberal arts colleges: Albion, Antioch, Denison, DePauw, Earlham, Hope, Kalamazoo, Kenyon, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan, Wabash, and Wooster. Its activities include the development and maintenance of off-campus programs that provide students special academic, experiential, and intercultural opportunities around the world in a wide range of studies.

A partial list of other colleges participating in the program includes: Alma College, Baldwin-Wallace College, Carleton, Carnegie-Mellon, Connecticut College, Gettysburg, Grinnell, Heidelberg, Hofstra University, Illinois Wesleyan, Indiana University, Lawrence University, Macalaster College, Maryland Institute, Monmouth College, Muhlenberg, Northwestern Univ., Nova Scotia College of Art, Ripon, Simpson, Santa Fe, Southwestern, St. Olaf, Trinity, Union College, University of Arizona, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of New Mexico and Yale University.