Field Period Scholarships

Keuka College encourages students to think “outside the box” when it comes to Field Periods.
Therefore, the College offers two scholarships to assist students with travel and other costs:

Spiritual Exploration Field Periods involve work or service in churches, missions, hospitals, hospices, and the like. They may also involve aiding and assisting churches or religious organizations in providing aid to needy individuals and groups, either in this country or overseas.

The scholarship is funded by a $5,000 Institutional Renewal Grant from The Rhodes Consultation on the Future of the Church-Related College.

The Judith Oliver Brown Memorial Award honors Brown, a French major who spent her junior year as a Norton Scholar at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and conducted her senior year Field Period at the Lavin Perfume Co. in New York City. A 1963 Keuka graduate, she died in 1986.

The award, supported by Brown’s family and the Class of ’63, is designed to assist students planning to pursue culturally oriented Field Periods. They must write essays outlining their Field Period plans, how the funds will facilitate those plans, and how the experience will benefit them, the site, and the community.