About The Global South Scholars Program

The Global South Scholars Program is a not-for-profit initiative that endeavors to provide students from underserved communities with opportunities for academic and extracurricular engagement. It aims to further its goals through two specific interventions. First, by creating extensive and original resources such as creative, alternative curricula for grade levels 9-12. And second, by organizing structured and rigorous academic programs, employing original educational and pedagogical resources, and learning opportunities such as online and in-campus summer school engagements, to facilitate new avenues for learning. 

The Global South Scholars Program recognizes the lack of rigorous engagement opportunities that foster critical thinking skills, which allow students to apply theoretical knowledge to real life situations. 

Currently, most aspects of classroom education are based in rote learning and memorization, and encourage students to learn from the limited resource that is their textbooks. Not only does the current mode of classroom education seldom go beyond the books, it also fails to acknowledge and demonstrate the way what is being learned can be applied to the real world, and its relevance to students’ future. 

This project aims to fill these gaps in the existing formal education system available to students from underrepresented communities, by encouraging applied learning of new information, introducing students to experts and instructors from around the globe, and making learning more fun and accessible through interesting courses and curricula that make information relevant to the world that we live in and recognize. 

Thus, the engagement opportunities made available through GSSP are tailored to supplement existing school curricula by encouraging a deeper interaction with the concepts studied, and immersing oneself in modes of education that are beyond the ordinary.