Primary through Grade 12 Educational Resources
Center for Economic Education
This Center promotes economic and financial literacy. Through programs such as the annual Financial Fitness Summer Camp for Teens, the Center seeks to make a difference in the community by empowering Kentucky's youth and creating a better economic and financial future. Housed in the College of Business, the Center also provides services for local teachers and schools.
Center for Environmental Education
This Center provides professional development programs and classroom resources for K-12 teachers and outreach programs for K-12 students. The programs for K-12 teachers and students are offered through the independent work of the Center, and through collaboration with community agencies, teachers, and NKU and regional university faculty.
Center for Integrative Natural Science and Mathematics (CINSAM)
CINSAM offers in-service programs to meet the needs of teachers of science and mathematics and provides motivational opportunities for them to bring their students to campus. CINSAM also offers to the region's students a wide variety of summer programs related to the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering.
Community Connections
Community Connections facilitates structured school-group visits to campus, coordinates the presentation of performing arts and humanities programs in schools and community venues in the northern Kentucky region and transports a taste of NKU to elementary school partners in its signature Spirit Day events.
Early Childhood Center
Our Center is a not for profit organization serving a capacity of 60 children ages two years to 12 years. We serve children of NKU students, faculty and staff as well as members of the surrounding community. We are licensed and regulated by the Kentucky Cabinet for Families and Children.
Educational Outreach
We administer the School-Based Scholars Program (SBS). Through SBS, NKU partners with local school districts to provide college classes onsite for academically-prepared high school juniors and seniors.
Educational Talent Search
Educational Talent Search is a federally funded program whose purpose is to assist adolescents in preparing for their future. Advisors provide educational and career counseling, academic assistance, and guidance in making informed educational choices. In addition to monthly meetings at area schools, we offer enriching field trips, college tours, and two residential summer camps.
Fifth Third Bank Entrepreneurship Institute
Teenagers all over the region prove every year in the Fifth Third Bank Entrepreneurship Institute's High School Challenge that entrepreneurs can be any age. The EI is a comprehensive resource for students, teachers, businesses, and other individuals in the region and offers a quality curriculum based on rigorously applied entrepreneurship research.
Institute for Freedom Studies
IFS conducts heritage preservation and local history studies, does research on the Underground Railroad, sponsors student creative and artistic initiatives, develops P-16 related curricula and sponsors local and regional historic site tours having a multi-part purpose to include fostering rural economic development.
Kentucky Center for Mathematics
Drawing on mathematical expertise and research, the KCM supports teachers and students across Kentucky by facilitating development of mathematical proficiency, by training coaches to empower teachers for future success, and by promoting the enjoyment of learning mathematics. The Center was created by the state legislature and resides at NKU.
Latino and Multicultural Center for Regional Development
Through research, education, and outreach NKU's Latino and Multicultural Center for Regional Development (LMC) focuses on strengthening P-12 education to enable Latino and multicultural students to maximize success and progress toward post-secondary education.
Scripps Howard Center for Civic Engagement
By engaging students, faculty and staff at Northern Kentucky University in organized community service, the Center is trying to bring civic knowledge development, and educational pedagogies such as service learning into the mainstream.
University/School Partnerships
Our Office facilitates collaborative projects in which faculty, administrators, and students from local elementary and secondary schools work with the students and education faculty of Northern Kentucky University on a variety of classroom-based and extra-curricular projects that enhance P-16 education for the entire region.
University Youth Programs (summer camps,etc.)
Upward Bound
We are a challenging college preparatory program, federally funded, serving 65 students, grades 9 - 12, in seven target high schools. Selected students must either meet federal income requirements and/or be the children of parents without baccalaureate college degrees.
