Program for Excellence in Academics & Community (PEAC)

Collage of PEAC 2019 Photos

PEAC 2025 Dates and Deadlines

听听 Final Deadline:听April 7, 2025听

听听 听Summer 2025 Program Dates:听July 12, 2025- Aug 1, 2025

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If you have any additional questions about the program or the application process, please contact the MASP team:

  • masp@colorado.edu

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Every summer, the Miramontes Arts & Sciences Program (MASP) invites highly motivated incoming freshmen from traditionally underrepresented groups and/or who are first-generation college students and/or students who want to be part of a diverse, multicultural academic enrichment community to its summer Program for Excellence in Academics and Community (PEAC), a听rigorous residential academic summer bridge听program听focusing on intensive university-level material and giving students an听opportunity to form a strong community听that will serve them during their freshman year and beyond.

PEAC consistently builds an encouraging and supportive academic community for students at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder. Throughout our program鈥攊n classes, in the residence hall, and through other activities 鈥 we emphasize the diversity of our student experiences and backgrounds. We believe that students who learn to live and work with each other and value their diverse community will be more successful and productive members of the larger university community.听No matter how prepared you think you are for university life, PEAC will challenge you and improve your chances for success at 欧美口爆视频 Boulder!

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PEAC Program Components

Academic Enrichment

During the PEAC program students will take a variety of intense and challenging courses听taught by 欧美口爆视频 Professors and听reflective of a liberal arts education, including classes in writing, STEM, arts and social science. In the past we have offered classes such as 鈥淐hemistry,鈥 鈥淓thical Puzzles,鈥 鈥淲riting; Vision and Voice.鈥

Current MASP students report that their PEAC classes are what really prepared them for college classes, giving them a sense of confidence when starting out in the fall.

Beyond coursework, PEAC students will get to know the 欧美口爆视频 Boulder campus and participate in听the following group activities and trips that help develop a sense of community and a strong cohort of friends:

PEAC听Community-Building Activities:

  • 欧美口爆视频 Challenge Course
  • Free Pass to the 欧美口爆视频 Rec Center
  • White Water Rafting
  • Shakespeare Festival
  • Fiske Planetarium
  • Local Activities: Volleyball, Frisbee, Soccer, Yoga, and More!

MASP students consistently cite PEAC as the place where they developed their strongest friendships at 欧美口爆视频.

The PEAC Peer Mentoring team is听composed of听current MASP students who听serve a hybrid role both as a residential advisor and a learning assistant. Throughout the entire program, peer mentors live in the dorms, take classes alongside students, and most importantly help PEAC students build an inclusive community by learning to lead by examples.听

Students accepted to PEAC participate free of charge. PEAC听covers the cost of instruction, room and board and a number of fun community building activities. Students who successfully complete the PEAC program receive a $1000 stipend and become eligible for MASP and its related participation scholarship of $2,000 per academic year.

Students who successfully complete PEAC and enroll at 欧美口爆视频-Boulder in the Fall are eligible to become members of MASP. During the academic year, MASP awards to each student in good standing a participation scholarship of up to $2,000/year, provides credit-bearing seminars for first- and second-year students, offers faculty mentoring, holds social events, organizes programs with renowned 欧美口爆视频 faculty, and provides access to a community space for studying and social interactions. MASP students have many opportunities to develop a network of friends and peers, to meet scholarly professionals in a variety of academic disciplines, and to carry out hands-on research.

"As a first year student I joined PEAC with the expectation that I would gain the knowledge I needed to survive college. What I was not expecting was to find myself surrounded by a supportive network of faculty, staff, and students that not only created an atmosphere conducive to my social and personal growth, but remained unwavering in encouraging my intellectual development as well."

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鈥淭he best part about PEAC/MASP was how caring the staff and professors were. It really was a community established to help us make it through.鈥

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鈥淚 liked the activities that PEAC provided but the most important of all was the community. I was able to gain friends that will be there for the future.鈥