The Scholarship Foundation honored 24 student artists at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on Thursday, January 24. Selected as winners of the Foundation’s 2019 Art Scholarship Competition, the students will each receive a college scholarship for the 2019-2020 academic year. Their selected art submissions were exhibited in the museum’s Family Resource Center through January… Read more »
Sometimes it can seem as though we are awash in dispiriting news about young people. Pick up any newspaper or turn on the television and you’re invariably confronted with a headline about social media excesses or online bullying by teenagers. Again, or so it seems. I confess to feeling this way on occasion, though in… Read more »
The 40th annual Art Scholarship Exhibition and Reception will take place January 24 at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art Family Resource Center.
The Scholarship Foundation is accepting donations for a new scholarship fund established in memory of UC Santa Barbara Research Professor Emeritus Jacob Nissim Israelachvili. The Jacob N. Israelachvili Honors Science Scholarship Fund will support graduate and undergraduate students in chemical engineering, materials, physics, and biochemistry. A prominent physicist, chemical engineer, and materials scientist, Mr. Israelachvili… Read more »
Many thanks to the incredible donors, volunteers, and other supporters who attended our Community Leaders Luncheon on Friday, December 7. I was honored to meet many of you and look forward to deepening our acquaintance. Our event speakers, Miguel Cruz and Janet Garufis, poignantly reminded us of education’s power to transform lives. Your relationship with… Read more »
As many of you know, the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara will soon have a new leader. Victoria Juarez, who currently serves as executive director of Girls Inc. of Carpinteria, will assume her new duties as president and CEO of the Scholarship Foundation on December 3. Victoria comes to us with a wealth of relevant… Read more »
Born in Jalisco, Mexico, Raul Aguilera earned three associate’s degrees at Santa Barbara City College before transferring to California State University, Northridge, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Spanish. He has been a Scholarship Foundation program advisor since June 2017. What is your busiest time of year as an SFSB program advisor and why?… Read more »
High school seniors basically must choose between two paths to mature adulthood. One promises a measure of self-discovery and a host of desirable life outcomes, including greater affluence and longevity. Statistically speaking, the other offers considerably less in the way of employment opportunities and personal growth. I am simplifying, of course, but those who forgo… Read more »
Student loan debt has been the focus of ominous headlines in recent months, and the underlying figures are indeed alarming. According to Federal Reserve data, Americans owed $1.5 trillion in student loans in the first quarter of 2018. Class of 2017 g…
Greg Cooper was passionate about three things throughout most of his adult life: his family, the transformative power of education, and bowling. The longtime Nipomo resident last year paid tribute to his favorite pastime and his devotion to education in the form of a unique scholarship. Administered by the Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara, the… Read more »
