2025-26 PhD Honorary Scholarships

4 PhD students will be selected annually to receive honorary scholarships, each valued at $1,000! Scholarships will be awarded prior to the start of the Fall quarter:

• Grace Lee Boggs Scholarship
• Dr. Ann Filemyr Lifetime Learning Award

How to Apply:

• Complete the PhD Dispositions Self-Reflection Survey: https://forms.office.com/r/0XM1FfXyee
• Submitted surveys will be assigned a number that will be entered into a lottery drawing.
• PhD Scholarship survey submission will be available July 14, 2025 – August 17, 2025, at 11:59 PM; winners of the PhD Honorary Scholarships will be announced the week of August 18th.
• The purpose of this survey is to familiarize students with the dispositions and allow them the opportunity to practice self-reflection. Survey submissions will not be shared outside of the Financial Aid Office, and scholarship eligibility is not dependent upon the student’s self-rating or reflection. Aggregate data may be used to evaluate and enhance our educational offerings.

Rules and Requirements:

• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 for continuing students; GPA requirement is waived for new incoming students.
• Must be enrolled at least half-time (3 units) in the Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership Doctoral Program.
• ONE SURVEY SUBMISSION PER STUDENT; students who submit multiple surveys will be disqualified from being entered into the drawing.

Dr. Ann Filemyr Lifetime Learning Award

Dr. Ann Filemyr, PhD, one of the founders of SWC’s Visionary Practice and Regenerative Leadership Doctoral program, embodies a commitment to the empowering role of transformational education in developing one’s inner authority, creativity, and capacity to heal/transform oneself, and then through sustained engagement, to help repair the ruptures in our relationships to each other – other human beings and more-than-human beings with whom we share this world. She envisions a future in which the entrenched systems of domination and hierarchy have been effectively challenged and replaced by patterns of partnership, mutual care, and generative reciprocity. She wants to support the doers and dreamers who will co-imagine, research, seek out and seek within to develop the frameworks, practices, policies, and projects that will support this change.

The Dr. Ann Filemyr Lifetime Learning Award will be awarded to one PhD student in the Fall, in recognition of the commitment students make to lifetime learning when pursuing a doctorate degree

Grace Lee Boggs Honorary Scholarship

“We urgently need to bring to our communities the limitless capacity to love, serve, and create for and with each other.” – Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

“We are beginning to understand that the world is always being made fresh and never finished; that activism can be the journey rather than the arrival; that struggle doesn’t always have to be confrontational but can take the form of reaching out to find common ground with the many others in our society who are also seeking ways out from alienation, isolation, privatization, and dehumanization.” – Grace Lee Boggs, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century

Grace Lee Boggs (June 27, 1915 – October 5, 2015) was an American author, social activist, philosopher, and feminist. She is known for her years of political collaboration with C. L. R. James and Raya Dunayevskaya in the 1940s and 1950s. In the 1960s, she and James Boggs, her husband of some forty years, took their own political direction. By 1998, she had written four books, including an autobiography. In 2011, still active at the age of 95, she wrote a fifth book, The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century, with Scott Kurashige and published by the University of California Press. She is regarded as a key figure in the Asian American Movement.