Education

By Trent Ball and Faith Sandler We have come over a way that with tears has been watered. -James Weldon Johnson, Lift Every Voice and Sing (authored in 1900 to celebrate Abraham...

I’m sharing with you one of the most valuable benefits of my job: reason to hope. I can’t go even a day being discouraged by the state of democracy and the entrenched...

Journalist Sylvester Brown, Jr. received the essay written by Scholarship Foundation Campus Policy Fellows and wanted to meet with them right away. Brown began the discussion with Anne Marie, Jessika, Kennedi, and...

Unbeknownst to him at the time, Darion Williams solved my dilemma about how to write a centennial year-end post. I just couldn’t bring myself to write the words pandemic, unprecedented, pivoted, or...

Since 1920, The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis has been built upon the enduring belief that an educated society is essential to a healthy democracy.  Equitable education and civil society cannot coexist...

By Buff Buffkin, President, and Faith Sandler, Executive Director Nothing is the same. Everything is reminiscent. The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis is putting people first, 100 years old and counting, and...

One of the benefits of working with students is that I cannot ever assume I know. I am reminded all the time of my many opportunities to learn. I’m not trying to...

*This blogpost is the first of five in a series marking the centennial year of The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis. Jointly authored by members of the History Subcommittee and Executive Director...

“Telling is not teaching. To learn is to appropriate something new to oneself, to find an answer to one’s question, to see a new relationship, learn a new skill, gain an appreciation,...

Colleagues at National College Access Network (NCAN) invited me to speak in a TED-style talk at a conference plenary session in front of more than 1,100 people. Three of us agreed to...

“Free college” is not as it sounds. Headlines rarely tell the whole story. This is true of newspapers, press releases from public agencies, and all forms of social media. There are currently...

We are tired and we are moved. Today is a somber day in St. Louis, marking five years since the police shooting of Michael Brown, Jr. on a quiet street in Ferguson...