Scholarships

CLASS Fund's Original Intent Remains to Provide Scholarships that Recognize the Following:

                • Promising students who are continuing their educational pursuits
                • Outstanding accomplishments with financial assistance
                • Promise and commitment for and to the profession
Scholarships are available to undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in accredited programs of landscape architecture, ornamental horticulture, and irrigation science within California. All applicants must be continuing their studies within their respective fields of endeavor.

SCHOLARSHIP GUIDELINES

CLASS Fund offers scholarships (undergraduate and graduate) to deserving students as selected for the outlined programs herewith.  The application/selection process will be determined by the respective departments or each individual institution.  Each institution will be directly responsible for the selection criteria.

Nominees will need to complete the one-page nomination form and send in a high resolution headshot.  Guidelines for both will be sent out to all Universities every January.

EXAMPLE SCHOLARSHIP CRITERIA:

  • Evaluating student’s financial needs

  • Determining student’s potential success in the profession

  • Reviewing student’s academic status

  • Assessing student’s community involvement

  • Considering student’s class and/or professional leadership capabilities

  • Student should have at least one remaining year of study

AVAILABLE SCHOLARSHIPS

CAL POLY POMONA

University Scholarship Program:
(2) $2,500 Scholarships

Ornamental Horticulture/
Irrigation Science Program:
(1) $2,500 Scholarships

CONTACTS

Andrew Wilcox
Department Chair
Department of Landscape Architecture

Dr. Valerie Mellano
Horticulture/Plant & Soil Science Department

CAL POLY SLO

University Scholarship Program:
(1) $2,500 Scholarship

Alec Balliet Scholarship:
(1) $2,500 Scholarship

Ornamental Horticulture/
Irrigation Science Program:
(1) $2,500 Scholarship

CONTACTS

Christry O-Hara or Miran Day
Landscape Architecture Department

Dr. Scott Steinmaus
Department Head
Horticulture and Crop Science

UC DAVIS

University Scholarship Program:
(2) $2,500 Scholarships

Ornamental Horticulture/
Irrigation Science Program:
(1) $2,500 Scholarship

CONTACTS

David del Pena, PhD
Sharla Cheney, Undergraduate Advisor
Department of Environmental Design

Colby Cronin, Professor
Lisa Brown, Administrative Coordinator
Department of Plant Sciences

UC BERKELEY

Landscape Architecture Scholarship Program:
(2) $1,500 Scholarships

CONTACT

Inayah Baaqee
Chair of Prizes and Awards Commission

Department of Landscape Architecture
and Environmental Planning

UCLA

Landscape Architecture Scholarship Program:
(2) $1,500 Scholarships

CONTACT

Stephanie Landregan
Extension Landscape Architecture & Horticulture

USC

Landscape Architecture Scholarship Program:
(2) $1,500 Scholarships

CONTACT

Alison Hirsch, MLA, MSHP, PhD, FAAR
Associate Professor
Landscape Architecture Program