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All Summer Programs
are free.
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WHAT IS TASP?
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A TASP is a six-week educational experience
for high school juniors that offers challenges and rewards rarely encountered in
secondary school or even college. Each program is designed to bring together young
people from around the world who share a passion for learning. Telluride students,
or TASPers, attend a seminar led by college and university faculty members
and participate in many other educational and social activities outside the
classroom.
Students attend TASPs because they want to challenge
and change themselves. Telluride Association seeks students from all kinds of
educational backgrounds who demonstrate intellectual curiosity and motivation,
rather than prior knowledge of the seminar's subject matter. TASPers participate
solely for the pleasure and rewards of learning with other intelligent, highly
motivated students. The TASP offers no grades or college credit.
| The Seminar
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The program seminars are similar to upper-level college
classes. The faculty members, who are selected from the country's best institutions,
design programs in which students read texts carefully and critically and express and analyze
ideas in their discussions and writings. Students do not simply master a
body of facts or knowledge; they are forced to think for themselves about
what they have read and learned.
TASP seminars meet three hours a day, five days
a week—a schedule that allows the students and faculty members to become
very closely involved with the material and with each other. The student-teacher
ratio is lower than ten to one, and every student receives personal attention from
the professors.
| The TASP Community
| Students learn to form,
and live responsibly within, an intellectual and social community. Each TASP
encourages the students to use the seminar as a foundation for exploring ideas
together, and the intellectual life of the program continues well after the seminar
ends. TASPers are urged to take advantage of the resources of the college
and university communities where the programs are held. Students attend
specially arranged guest lectures and give speeches on topics that interest
them—as well as join in informal dinner-table and late-night discussions
of a great range of issues! Students also attend group meetings and are
responsible for planning community activities and discussing questions of
self-government.
| A Scholarship Program
| TASPs are
free. Telluride Association is committed to providing this unique
educational opportunity to students from all social and financial
backgrounds. Every student awarded a place in a TASP attends the program
on a full housing, dining, and tuition scholarship. Students pay only the
costs of transportation and incidental expenses. Participants with
demonstrated need may request financial aid to cover reasonable travel
costs. In addition, we can offer stipends of up to $500 to replace summer
work earnings for students who would otherwise be unable to attend the program.
It is the policy of Telluride that no student be barred from
attending a TASP for financial reasons.
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