A native of Santa Barbara, Samantha Alvarez earned a bachelor’s degree in anthropology at UCSB. She has worked extensively with area nonprofits since high school, and became a Scholarship Foundation program advisor in June 2016. What is the most gratifying part of your job? I truly enjoy helping students and parents who are having difficulty… Read more »
With graduation season fast approaching, many high school seniors are excitedly making plans to continue their studies in the fall. This sobering statistic should give them – and their parents – pause: About 40 percent of the students who start college in the coming academic year will never finish. The nation’s stubbornly high college dropout… Read more »
While the perils of mounting student loan debt are well known and remarked upon, another education crisis is receiving comparatively little attention, despite the threat it poses to long-term economic health.
I am referring to the nation’s dismal …
Scholarship Foundation President and CEO Victoria Juarez (left) was a featured guest on KZSB’s ‘Arts and Antiques Radio Show’ this morning (February 15). Joining her and host Elizabeth Stewart were San Marcos High School senior Camille Lubach and her mother, Lori Cooper. Camille won best of show honors in the Foundation’s recent art scholarship competition.
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 »
