Stanford rising sophomores: Spend the last three weeks of Summer 2026 focusing on a single class focused on Center on Poverty and Inequality research! Stanford Sophomore College intensive "SoCo" classes are for Stanford undergraduates entering their sophomore year, are limited to 10-15 students who live together during the program, and emphasize hands-on activities and field trips to forge faculty relationships beyond the classroom.

In Summer 2026, CPI Faculty Director David Grusky will be teaching the SoCo course "The American Voices Project: Building a New Tool for Listening to the People" (SOC 13SC). Students will assist with building out a new fielding of the American Voices Project (AVP) (a project within CPI's Voices Lab). The AVP is CPI's unique nationally representative immersive-interviewing study that aims to listen to the voices of a representative sample of residents of the U.S. by asking them to “tell the story of their life” and to reflect on their lives, challenges, beliefs, and hopes. SoCo student teams will take on such jobs as testing the AVP interview guide, testing whether AI interviewing might be usable for some interviews, building tools for real-time analysis of the AVP text data, building new approaches to deidentifying the data and protecting confidentiality, and much more.

Apply by April 14. Learn more here.