UNITING THE WORLD Davis UWC Scholars The 2019 Report of the Davis UWC Scholars Program Davis United World College Scholars Program 1 “I’m trying to stimulate leaders of the future to make a difference through the grounding in education that I’m helping to give them. When I started my business career, I took my own history lesson from Princeton: I learned how leaders make a difference, in their countries, in their centuries. So I invested in leaders, and that investment helped me to be successful. …I’m looking to invest again in leaders of the future.” SHELBY M.C. DAVIS Co-founder and Philanthropist UNITING THE WORLD “We strive to build critical masses of globally minded young men and women on American campuses, to foster highly personal relationships between outstanding Americans and non-Americans, and to seed global networks. These networks can serve a higher calling of international understanding and common purpose among future leaders in all walks of life in our world.” PHILIP O. GEIER Co-founder and Executive Director Davis United World College Scholars PROGRAM 2019 Annual Report Private Philanthropy Supporting International Understanding through Education Presidents’ Perspectives Agnes Scott College . 62 . The Program Bennington College . 65 . Uniting the World Brown University . .66 . Why the Davis United World College Bucknell University . 69 . Scholars Program? . 5 Case Western Reserve University . 70 . CONTENTS The Program by the Numbers Clark University . 74. Timeline of Program Growth . 8 Colby College . 77 . How the Program Works . 8 College of Idaho . 78 164 Home Countries — 3,113 Current Scholars . 10 Earlham College . 81 Distribution of Scholars by World Region . 11 Lake Forest College . 82 . 96 Partner Colleges and Universities . 12 Macalester College . 85 . Number of Scholars by Class Year . 14 Winner of the 2018–19 Davis Cup . 17 Middlebury College . 86 . MIT . 89 . The Davis Vision and Its Impact Mount Holyoke College . 90 . I Hit the Jackpot, Investing in You—A Message from Shelby Davis . 19 Princeton University . 93 Ringling College of Art + Design . 94 Philanthropists Honor Roll . 22 Skidmore College . .97 . Where the Scholars Come From . 25 St . Lawrence University . 98 . The UWC Schools . 26 University of Oklahoma. 101 . Sources of the Davis UWC Scholars . 27 University of Richmond. 102 . Acknowledgements and Credits . 128 Wartburg College. 105 . The Scholars Wellesley College. 106 . The Class of 2019 . 28 Undergraduate Classes Class of 2020 . 61 Graduates in Action Class of 2021 . 82 Helping to Build Public-Private Partnerships . 34 Class of 2022 . 105 Putting London’s Spare Food to Work . 42 Undergraduates in Action Clarifying the Politics Behind the World’s Water Challenges . 50 Boosting Women toward Business Careers . 31 A “Serial Entrepreneur” Gives Back . 57 Building Solar Power and a Choir . 39 Rowing Across the Atlantic for UWC . 63 Why Wait to Make a Difference? . 47 Working to Build Modern Systems in Nepal . 68 Alternative Power for an Aspiring Engineer . 53 Applying Geoscience to Energy Development . 80 Bringing Faith and Science Together . 58 A Role Model in Cambodia . 91 Spreading Math Passion in Mexico . 64 African Answers for an Energy Crisis . 96 I Just Want to Make a Difference . 75 A Better Deal for Female Coffee Growers . 107 From Refugee Schools to the Ivy League . 84 Helping Africa’s Youth Find Answers . 116 A Public-Housing Expert on Wheels . 95 An EcoRep Helps to Clean the Green . 100 Making an Impact with Affordable Ingenuity . 111 2 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 3 UNITING THE WORLD Why the Davis United World College Scholars Program? By Philip O. Geier, Ph.D., Executive Director e live in turbulent and unpredictable times. The 21st Wcentury has brought new challenges, threats, and uncertainties, making the world a fragile place. The pace is ever quickening and any sense of common purpose seems to be elusive. We are constantly bombarded with information that confuses more than it clarifies. We are confronted by issues of mobility, nationalism, the environment, and political divisiveness. Yet, we are hopeful — hopeful because of the future possibilities of our scholars and the personal Philanthropist Shelby Davis and veteran international educator Phil relationships they are building on the campuses of our Geier are partners in building international understanding through education. The Davis UWC Scholars Program invests in scholarships at nearly 100 American college and university partners. These American colleges and universities for promising students from all over the world. partnerships are giving shape to a promising network of tomorrow’s decision makers committed to making the world a better place in a spirit of mutual respect. The Davis United World College (UWC) Scholars Program is investing extensively and with confidence in these future possibilities, and we invite you to explore our vision in this report. The Davis UWC Scholars Program was co-founded in 2000 by philanthropist Shelby M. C. Davis and international educator Philip O. Geier. It has grown since then to become the largest privately funded international undergraduate scholarship program in the world. The program’s strategic objective is to advance international understanding through education. It is built on two assumptions: 4 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 5 the financial needs of these promising scholars throughout their four-year undergraduate degree studies. The program has five principal goals: » provide scholarship support for exemplary and promising students, from a wide range of countries and cultures, who have absorbed the passion and mission of their UWC schools for building international understanding; » build meaningful clusters of these globally aware scholars within the undergraduate populations of selected partner colleges and universities across the U.S.; » help transform the American undergraduate experience through international diversity and intercultural exchange — as much for the large majority of traditional American students as for the scholars; » leverage the value of this philanthropic initiative — to the long-term benefit of all learners and their teachers — to contribute to strategic shifts in institutional thinking, and to bring greater » that promising future leaders from a broad range of cultures should be afforded greater resources to the effort; and educational opportunities and enhanced global networking; and » contribute proactively to the well-being of our volatile, highly interdependent world by » these educational opportunities should take place in a variety of U.S. colleges and universities, in expecting our scholars and those with whom they interact to take personal responsibility for the belief that, by becoming more diverse and globally engaged, these American schools will be helping shape a better world. more effective learning communities for all their students. The Davis UWC Scholars Program is at once practical and inspirational. It reflects the huge potential The program provides grants to selected partner U.S. colleges and universities in support of need- of private philanthropy to promote international understanding in dynamic, expanding ways, based scholarships for American and foreign scholars. Students who are eligible for this support have through educational institutions that share its strategic vision and are committed to building greater gained admission on their own merit to these schools, having successfully completed their final two opportunities for global engagement for all their students. In essence, the program is about using years of high school at a group of international schools called United World Colleges, which teach to philanthropic leadership to leverage additional support for transformative impact on individuals, the International Baccalaureate diploma. The growing UWC movement now has schools located in institutions, and the wider world. the United States, Armenia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Canada, China, Costa Rica, eSwatini, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Thailand, and the United Kingdom. Since their founding in 1962 at the height of the Cold War, these UWC schools have provided educational opportunities to outstanding students from over 175 countries, representing all regions of the world. UWC students are selected in their home countries by indigenous, voluntary committees charged to find the most promising teenagers eager to pursue their education and leadership and cross- cultural skills in a global context. Under the leadership of former UWC-USA president Phil Geier, the Davis UWC Scholars Program now supports the education of 3,100 UWC graduates on 96 American campuses. Headquartered at Middlebury College, the program partners with these colleges and universities to meet 6 Uniting the World Davis United World College Scholars Program 7 Nineteen Years of Program Growth 5 Schools 96 Schools 43 Scholars 9,428 Scholars 31 Countries 164 Countries 201 Scholars 586 Scholars 1,274 Scholars 2,306 Scholars 3,591 Scholars 4,853 Scholars 6,198 Scholars 7,686 Scholars 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 117 Scholars 309 Scholars 923 Scholars 1,720 Scholars 2,962 Scholars 4,230 Scholars 5,508 Scholars 6,909 Scholars 8,549 Scholars How This Works 1 2 3 4 Since 1962, thousands of young people from 175 nations In 2000, the Davis United World College Scholars Program This academic year, there are 96 U.S. colleges and With their education made possible through their own have been selected by committees in their home countries began providing scholarship grants to a pilot group of universities in partnership with the Davis United World merits and the help of the Davis United World College to complete their last two years of high school at one of American colleges and universities to support UWC College Scholars Program . For partner schools, the Scholars Program and its partner schools, Davis UWC 17 United World College schools . UWC schools are in graduates who matriculated at these schools .