A Revolution: The Clark Scholarship Endowment for Undergraduates

When A. James Clark established the $30 million Clark Scholarship Endowment in 2005, he started a revolution whose effects will be felt for decades to come. His endowment provides a range of large and smaller scholarships, specifically for undergraduate engineering students, on the bases of merit, need and diversity. We welcome further gifts in support of undergraduate scholarships, and a large portion of our campaign goal is targeted for that purpose. However, we are giving even greater focus to graduate fellowships. If you are considering a gift to support our students, please consider the needs of graduate students.

Answering the Critical Need for Graduate Fellowships

At the Clark School, our graduate fellowship endowment is less than 10 percent of the mean graduate fellowship endowment of the top five public engineering schools. We have managed to do a good job of recruiting and producing graduate students, including from under-represented minorities; in fact, we are the nation's leading source of African American doctorate degrees in engineering. But with funding from the Great Expectations campaign, we will create a new range of graduate fellowships to attract and retain more of the best candidates for all Clark School departments.

Greater numbers of exceptional graduate students will mean an influx of new research ideas and interests, better-staffed research labs, and added inducement for the very best faculty to join us. A gift in support of graduate fellowships will also help us fulfill our responsibility to produce more engineering graduate students to meet the nation's growing demand.

More information on Fellowships

How You Can Help

To learn more about opportunities to advance the work of the Clark School, and to discuss your own ideas and plans, please contact us.