Naming Opportunities

Current Year Scholarships

Individuals may support a Current Year Scholarship with a gift of $10,000 funded during a single fiscal year -- the equivalent of a $200,000 endowed gift. This provides a one-year named scholarship to be awarded to a promising and talented student with financial need. Students awarded a Current Year Scholarship will be selected during the summer following the fiscal year in which the gift was made. Donors will be notified of the student selected to receive their scholarship in the fall semester and will be invited to meet the recipient at an annual campus luncheon held each spring.

Undergraduate Research Scholarships

The hallmark of the liberal arts experience is the opportunity for students to interact directly with faculty. Occidental encourages undergraduate research with faculty advisors as a key component of the education experience, and provides unique opportunities for students to participate in research and related scholarly endeavors. Donors can support these efforts by sponsoring a named Undergraduate Student Research Scholarship with a gift of $5,000 funded during a single fiscal year. This gift provides a stipend, laboratory or other research costs, and summer housing for one student. Students awarded an Undergraduate Student Research Scholarship will be selected during the fiscal year in which the gift was made for research to be conducted the following summer. Donors will be invited to meet the recipient at the Occidental Summer Research Conference in July.

Academic Quad Benches

For $5,000 funded during a single fiscal year, attractive brass dedication plaques are installed on the six-foot-long teak benches under the oak trees in the Quad. For $10,000, donors can dedicate an eight-foot-long bench.