The School of Business Administration conducts a 10-week E-Commerce Summer Camp program for 11th- and 12th-grade students from Detroit and Inkster schools. Every summer, 40 promising students attend this camp to get information about paid corporate internships and to learn business skills and e-commerce language such as HTML.

The Wayne State University Department of Music hosts the Sphinx Preparatory Music Institute
for musicians ages 12 to 18. The program is designed to address the needs of African-American
and Latino students in pursuit of music studies at beginning and intermediate levels. Each Saturday during the fall and winter terms, the organization offers classes in music history and instrumental performance in the department’s Old Main facilities.

“The Sphinx program provides a great opportunity for children to learn about classical music and theory while developing their performance skills. It also serves as a bridge to the community by offering access to a wonderful music program to kids who might not otherwise be able to participate,” says Pat Baldwin, parent of a ninth-grade student who attended the music program.

The University Library System conducts a community arts outreach program for middle and high school students in Metropolitan Detroit. During half-day workshops, students are trained in the process of creating literary chapbooks.

These books, collections of the students’ poetry and essays, are published on the Internet. They follow a long tradition of chapbooks dating back to the 1500s, when peddlers known as “chapmen” sold poetry and stories in the streets. The outreach program is intended to encourage the writing and reading of poetry and literature.