Field Period Scholarships

Keuka College encourages students to think “outside the box” when it comes to Field Periods. Therefore, the College offers two scholarships to assist students with travel and other costs:

• Spiritual Exploration Field Period Grant, and the
• Judith Oliver Brown Memorial Award.

Spiritual Exploration Field Period (SEFP) Grant

Grant recipients Lisa Marciniak '10, Aaron Harris '10, and Stacy Gulick '11 pose outside Norton Chapel.

Spiritual Exploration Field Periods involve work or service in churches, missions, hospitals, hospices, and the like. They may also involve aiding and assisting churches or religious organizations in providing aid to needy individuals and groups, either in this country or overseas; or self reflection and exploration into your own spirituality.

The grant is funded by an Institutional Renewal Grant from The Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College.

All current students planning on completing a Field Period matching the above criteria are eligible to apply for the SEFP Grant during the semester prior to their Field Period.  Official deadlines for application materials will be posted to the Center for Experiential Learning’s event calendar.  For more information students can contact the Center for Experiential Learning.

Judith Oliver Brown Memorial Award

The Judith Oliver Brown Memorial Award honors Brown, a French major who spent her junior year as a Norton Scholar at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and conducted her senior year Field Period at the Lavin Perfume Co. in New York City. A 1963 Keuka graduate, she died in 1986.

The award, supported by Brown’s family and the Class of ’63, is designed to assist students planning to pursue culturally oriented Field Periods. They must write essays outlining their Field Period plans, how the funds will facilitate those plans, and how the experience will benefit them, the site, and the community.

All current students planning on completing a culturally oriented Field Period are eligible to apply for the Judith Oliver Brown Memorial Award the fall semester prior to their Field Period.  Official deadlines for application materials will be posted to the Center for Experiential Learning’s event calendar.  For more information students can contact the Center for Experiential Learning.