Situated in the heart of Washington, DC, our Summer Honors Program provides participants the opportunity to connect with the ideas, research, and network of AEI–one of America’s preeminent policy think tanks.
The program aims to provide students with a deeper understanding of contemporary public policy challenges, a greater appreciation for substantive dialogue across ideological divides, and the knowledge and networks to pursue a future career in the policy world.
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Each summer, AEI welcomes college and university students from campuses across the nation to DC for week-long seminars led by our scholars and other public policy experts. Our program alumni have gone on to lead successful careers in government, law, academia, and more. The Summer Honors Program is a free space for debate. It's not a place to escape from it. It's a place where students need to be able to take big ideological steps and make big arguments that they care about. At AEI, I feel like we've had very, very intellectual composed discussions about a variety of however polarizing topics across a very wide spectrum of ideologies. It really connected me with a community of other young scholars with like-minded interests and being able to engage in classroom discussions from students from big state schools and schools on both coasts versus in the Midwest where I'm from has been really informative in not only challenging my thinking. It al=lso helped me to practice articulating and really understanding why I believe what I believe and what that is. You're constantly being exposed to new perspectives, constantly thinking, not just in the classroom, which which is an amazing experience engaging. So one-on-one with masters of their field has been so amazing and being able to go on these awesome site visits, like going directly to the Supreme Court, going to talk to various clerks. I was surprised at the ideological diversity that was present in my classes and encouraged by that. The AEI Academic Programs team works pretty hard to get an ideologically divided group where there's liberals, there's moderates that's not just dominated by conservatives. And so you have a lot of interesting conversations because of that. I think the model of the competition of ideas definitely will drive me forward in my intellectual pursuits. The annual AEI Summer Honors Program is an amazing opportunity for undergraduates to study and debate policy and think deeply about civic virtue and their role in American institutions.
