The Buzzards Bay Term

The centerpiece of Gull Island's programming on Buzzards Bay, this multi-week program runs from mid-May to early June each year. 

8-9 undergraduates take responsibility for themselves and their community through co-leading a seminar with remarkable faculty, formal self-governance, and work on a wildlife sanctuary managed by the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Wildlife and a sustainable oyster farm on Cuttyhunk island, along with other labor projects. Integrating the program's three pillars of academics, labor, and self-governance is a core question: what makes a place habitable, and what does it mean to inhabit it well? Each student cohort is selected by an Application Committee comprised of Gull Island student alumni. The program is tuition free.

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For more on the inaugural Buzzards Bay Term -– the Junemester 2023 – check out this profile in The Boston Globe.