Spring Honorary Scholarships

Spring Quarter

Guadalupe Award (4.5 units)
Images of Our Lady of Guadalupe are seen throughout New Mexico. These images transcend her historical and cultural origins. They have provided inspiration to many people here. What has divine feminine meant in your life and personal experience? (Click here to apply)

Spirit of Unity Award (2 units)
Southwestern College was originally founded as Quimby College, honoring the now little-known “Father of New Thought.” New Thought is a spiritually-sourced energy/spiritual healing movement that is still quite vibrant today, and was the foundation for Unity, the Center for Spiritual Living and other such groups. William James, the greatest American psychologist of his time, called New Thought a movement of “healthy-mindedness” and America’s “only decidedly original contribution to the systematic philosophy of life.” It involved a positive approach to life, a conscious alignment with divinity, and a firm belief that we can participate in our own health, happiness and prosperity. (Click here to apply)

New Beginnings Award (2 units)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

This time of year is about new beginnings…describe a vision or intention you have for the coming year related to your personal/professional growth in the helping profession. 
(Click here to apply)

Gandhi Social Conscience Award (4.5 units)

Interestingly, Gandhi was powerfully impacted by Henry David Thoreau’s life and writing. Thoreau, of course, was mentored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who also impacted Robert Waterman’s educational philosophy profoundly. Gandhi, a wisp of a man physically, brought the powerful British Imperial Empire to its knees, leading to the freedom of India, the world’s second largest country. Gandhi had vision, and personified the idea that “one person aligned is stronger than a million who are not.” (Click here to apply)

Ancient Wisdom Traditions Award (2 units)
Mainstream Psychology takes us part of the way, but seems to stop with the “actualization” of the self, the individual. All Ancient Wisdom Traditions have seen that as the half-way point, at best. Their emphasis on One-ness, the Unity of all beings and things, requires going beyond personalities and biology, into realms where Hermes Trismegistus, Pythagoras, indigenous cultures, the Druids, Phineas Quimby, Emerson, and modern day New Thought writers found higher truths, and greater depths of wisdom. (Click here to apply)

Board of Trustees Ambassador Scholarship (2 units)
The Southwestern College Board of Trustees admires the path of each of our students, and their capacity to bring honor to the College as an “Ambassador” for the school as they move about the world, both now and after graduation. (Click here to apply)