The SUPER Emerging Scholars Institute, a residential workshop and part of AHF’s SUPER (School and University Partners for Educational Renewal), is week-long and will offer specialized academic enrichment in the humanities. Institutes will assist upper-level high-school students from underserved communities in the development of skills necessary for success in secondary and post-secondary education.

SES participants will study the works of Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington and Ralph Ellison, all the way to modern and contemporary artists, including Sonia Sanchez and the late Tupac Shakur, during the institute, held June 7–13, 2009. They will also receive intensive, content-rich instruction in national and Alabama-based African-American history, literature and arts. As a complement to the curriculum, students will participate in interactive trips to various landmark sites in the state. While the pilot SES Institute is offered only to students in Jefferson and Greene Counties, institutes in subsequent years will be aimed at underserved communities statewide.