The Century Institute is a summer program for politically liberal college students.
It is sponsored by the Century Foundation, a liberal think tank started in 1919 by Edward A. Filene.
Its faculty has included many late 20th Century progressivism, including Prof. William Julius Wilson, activist Todd Gitlin, academic Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and UN official Gillian Martin Sorensen and her husband, John F. Kennedy advisor and speechwriter Theodore C. Sorensen.
Others included journalist Al From, writer Jedediah Purdy, Clinton advisor Robert Reich and strategist/blogger Ruy Teixeira.
The program's few dozen alumni have begun careers in law, academia, politics, journalism, education and overseas service.