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The Davis United World College Scholars Program is the world’s largest privately funded international scholarship program. [1][2] It awards need-based scholarship funding, aka the Shelby Davis Scholarship, to graduates of schools and colleges in the United World Colleges (UWC) movement to study at 99 select partner universities in the United ...
More recently, the Davis-UWC Scholars Program was launched by Shelby M.C. Davis in 2000 and now supports UWC graduates to study at 99 selected US colleges and universities, and has grown to become the world's largest, privately funded, international scholarship program. [34] In 2018, the Davis-UWC Dare to Dream Programme was launched with the ...
Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific (also referred to as Pearson College UWC) is one of eighteen schools and colleges around the world in the United World Colleges movement, [1] located on Vancouver Island, Canada. It is named after the late Canadian Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson, winner of the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize ...
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Atlantic College. UWC Atlantic (formally the United World College of the Atlantic, and often referred to by its original name, Atlantic College) is an independent boarding school in the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales. Founded in 1962, it was the first of the United World Colleges and was among the first educational institutions in the world ...
The United World College, USA (UWC-USA), officially the Armand Hammer United World College of the American West, is a United World College school in San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States. It was founded in 1982, with financial support from businessman Armand Hammer. UWC-USA is a two-year, independent, co-educational boarding school ...
Shelby Davis is noted as an extraordinarily generous philanthropist, especially to educational causes. [16] Among the most significant recipients of his philanthropy are the United World College movement and his own alma mater, Princeton University, [17] of which he served as trustee starting in 2006, [18] and was one of the most generous donors to the university while on the board. [19]
Li Po Chun UWC's adaptation of this system is called the "Quan Cai" program ("全才" in Chinese, meaning "development of the whole person" ). [21] The program has 4 components, namely community service, creativity, activity, and campus service. [22] A student is required to officially participate in at least 2 Quan Cai per year.