Former SCI-Arc trustee Tim Disney will gift $1 million to the Southern California institution to fund scholarships in its Equity + Inclusion Scholarship and Mentorship program.
The program was launched in 2021 to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the architecture field, which has historically been racially homogenous. SCI-Arc’s program awards full-tuition scholarships and mentorship opportunities to students entering the school from underrepresented backgrounds. The scholarships are one way to address the “quantifiable lack of representation of Black, Indigenous, and people of color within SCI-Arc’s student population and architecture at large.”
“This pledge signifies both a recognition of the work SCI-Arc has done thus
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