I hope your study-abroad time is as vivid a memory as my year in Italy has been for me – at that’s more than 40 years ago! In fact I can’t imagine my life and career without it. One of my goals as faculty director of UCSB’s Education Abroad Office is to keep in closer touch with our alumni. I believe our study-abroad time remains for each of us a significant moment in our educations – and our lives – and I thought you’d enjoy being informed about the progress and new developments in EAP.
The need for EAP scholarship funding continues to grow! Over 60% of UC Santa Barbara undergrads are on financial aid. Although EAP students continue to be eligible for financial aid while they are studying abroad, the aid often does not cover all their expenses, especially in the face of a weak US dollar. Students also must forego their job income while on EAP.
This spring, the campus EAP office received a record-breaking 73 scholarship applications requesting over $400,000 in scholarship funds. This tremendous unmet need is after applicants received their financial aid packages. Unfortunately, we were only able to grant about 11% of the funds requested! We know from experience that a number of these students will be forced to withdraw from EAP due to financial hardship. Please help us ensure that all qualified UC Santa Barbara students will have the option of studying abroad by giving what you can to the EAP Scholarship Fund.
You can help fund current students in the experience of their lifetime! Give by mail
Give online (coming soon!)
To create a scholarship fund in your name or to host an EAP alumni event, contact Sudi Staub, Director of Development, Academic and Parent Programs.
805-893-2190 or sudi.staub@ia.ucsb.edu
Jeanie Anderson Memorial Fund
Undergraduate Research/Creative Projects Grant
Jeanie Anderson
This fund was established to remember Jeanie Anderson by providing grants to students studying abroad. Jeanie was a UCSB student who was selected along with her three roommates to participate in EAP in 1972. After arriving in Bordeaux, France, she traveled to the north of Spain where she tragically drowned.
The Anderson Family has long had an interest in international education. Among her six siblings, Jeanie had a sister who was an EAP Madrid participant (1967), a brother who attended the University of Pau in France and received a PhD from the University of Bristol in
England, another brother who served in the Peace Corps in Zaire (Congo) and she also had a
niece who completed the General Course at the London School of Economics. The Anderson Family, along with friends, EAP staff, faculty, alumni and fellow students, and many others, established the Jeanie Anderson Memorial Fund. Since
1973, the fund has awarded over 100 grants to UCSB EAP students.
These grants provide resources to pursue learning beyond the classroom and allow a student to establish unique relationships abroad to expand his or her learning experience. Many of a student’s personal goals and dreams for international study can be translated into a grant proposal. In the past, grants have been awarded for $500 to $1,000. Some past projects have included “Acoustic Map: Sounds of Germany,” “Comparing Recycling Programs across Western Europe,” “Invasive Plant Species on the Island of Fernando de Noronha, Brazil,” “Flamenco Music Project,” and “The Scandinavian Response to the War in Iraq.”
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