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Dean Joan Metcalf Schaefer Scholarships

The Dean Joan Metcalf Schaefer Scholarships committee has awarded over $1.4 million to over 380 undergraduate and graduate students at USC.

Dean Joan has always urged students to fortify their minds as well as their spirits by studying liberal arts. She considers programs like music, fine arts and poetry essential to building what she calls "a foundation for life and a love for learning." "If you don't know of mankind's journey, you aren't really involved," she added.

In keeping with this philosophy, the Dean Joan Metcalf Schaefer Scholarships in the College reward students each year who follow in Dean Joan's footsteps of scholarship, leadership and service. "It is the ultimate honor to have a living legacy named in one's lifetime," she said.

Since its founding in 1992, the Dean Joan Metcalf Schaefer Scholarships committee has awarded over $1.4 million to over 380 undergraduate and graduate students at USC majoring in the Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. To learn more about the scholarship and to obtain and application, click here.

If you are interested in contributing to the scholarship endowment, please click here or contact Sonya Vanhoof at svanhoof@dornsife.usc.edu or at 213-258-7960.

Dean Joan with scholarship recipients outside the old USC Faculty Center.

Dean Joan Schaefer Scholarships Photo Album
If you would like to see many more photos from Dean Joan's years with her student scholars, click on the image below and you'll be taken to our photo blog. There, you can peruse a gallery of photos, add your comments, and forward the photo to friends and family. If you would like to add a photo of you with Dean Joan to this album, attach the photo to this email with your name and year. Thank you.