The Summer Institute is an affiliated Teacher CoSer of Erie One BOCES, Jane Ogilvie, Division Director and Bob Carlson, Operations Manager, (716) 821-7550
MISSION STATEMENT:
The Summer Institute for Human Rights and Genocide Studies will provide high school students with a learning experience focused on the historical legacy of human rights policy and episodes of genocide during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The Institute will carefully examine the historical context contributing to genocide and the American response to genocide throughout the past one hundred years. By providing students with a pointed curriculum which begins with the Holocaust and stretches to the current situation in Darfur, the Institute offers students a focused look at the continuing story of genocide in our world and tries to provide the hope and knowledge necessary to respond intelligently and to one day make a difference.
GOALS:
- Provide high school students a focused examination of genocide starting with the Holocaust and concluding with an investigation of our world today.
- Give high school students the opportunity to develop the knowledge and understanding necessary to actively involve themselves with issues of human rights.
- Inspire each student to reach out to make the world a better place.
Additionally, the following quotes are at the heart of our educational message:
- How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank
- I only did what needed to be done. - Irena Sendler
- You are the messengers to a time we shall not see. - Gerda Weissman Klein
- The ocean is made of drops. - Mother Theresa
- Do what you can, where you are, with what you have. - Teddy Roosevelt