Decision Regarding 2021 Summer Session
Letter From Sarah Workneh, Skowhegan Co-Director
As I mentioned in my last letter (Nov. 23), we have spent the past several months analyzing what it would take to safely run a program during the summer of 2021. One thing that has remained true as we all have negotiated our lives, jobs, families, resources, distances, is that it is very difficult to plan when so much is still precarious and in flux. After many conversations with our Boards, staff, and medical professionals; assessing all of our facilities, housing, and schedules; and reflecting as an organization on the purpose of Skowhegan, we have decided that we will not run our program for the 2021 summer.
We alerted the applicant community to this news on January 19th and offered to return application fees submitted for the 2020 application cycle through refund or a voucher, with a deadline to request these fees by April 2, 2021. This three-month period to request either a refund or a voucher has now ended.
We anticipate that the application for 2022 will open in November 2021. We have not retained any application materials. Each applicant will need to submit all application materials anew. If you requested and received a voucher, you will be able to use the voucher to pay for your application fee during any of the staggered fee brackets.
We thank you for your patience over the past two summer cycles throughout so much uncertainty. We hope that you will consider applying again when we re-open the program for 2022.
Sarah Workneh
Co-Director
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