The Poverty Project: Uprooting Class & Racial Discrimination in Student Housing

2024 Poverty Project Scholarship Application: https://forms.gle/fPbTpo3wj8jzMua88

Deadline: Friday, April 5th, 2024 at 11:59 PM  

The UC San Diego Poverty Project is an Associated Student Senator project designed to engage students in activist research focusing on a racial lens to the student housing crisis through a $5,000 scholarship, host a backpack drive for unhoused UC San Diego undergraduates, and a humanizing information campaign through a virtual database.

The Poverty Project Research: Undergraduate Students

The AS Office of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion and Campus-Wide Senator Green will annually endow a scholarship grant of $5,000 towards The Poverty Project. The scholarship will provide support housing, travel, equipment, and other costs associated with these endeavors. The research projects are designed to guide students through the process of (1) assessing the needs of low-income and unhoused students and the ability of local agencies to meet the needs of racial inequities in student housing; (2) educating community service organizations and the general public about these needs; (3) creating fundraising and educational opportunities to help agencies and the general public to serve unhoused students of color better. This project provides students with valuable experience in conducting qualitative research. The project proposal must be independent research, creative expression, or service above and beyond the normal course of study unless the project overlaps with research associated with a senior honors project or independent/special studies.

• AS Office of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion The Poverty Project Scholarship

• • Minimum cumulative UC GPA of 2.5
  • Eligibility criteria: Sophomore and Junior standing
  • UC San Diego students from all majors are eligible to apply
• The Poverty Project research scholar will commit to the Urban Challenges: Homelessness in San Diego Series under the Department of Urban Studies & Planning executing a problem-solving passion project after Summer Research
  • USP 142A Urban Challenges: Homelessness in San Diego Core Fundamentals
  • USP 142B Urban Challenges: Homelessness in San Diego Fieldwork
• The Poverty Project Scholarship Application: https://forms.gle/fPbTpo3wj8jzMua88
  • Deadline: Friday, April 5th, 2024 at 11:59 PM