ASB Scholarships
The Associated Student Body, ASB, generously provides trip scholarships for any students who receive federal financial aid.
The fund provides 50% off all fall semester and spring semester trips to eligible trip participants. For the New Student Trips in August, financial awards are based on financial need, as determined by the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form for that student. So, some students who qualify for Federal aid will get more than 50% in financial aid for their New Student Trips, and some students will get less, depending on their family’s Federally-determined financial need.
College Outdoors is proud to have offered these scholarships since 2012, and will continue this Scholarship Program as long as College Outdoors is able to obtain appropriate funding.
Semester Scholarship Program Frequently Asked Questions:
All Lewis & Clark College undergraduate students with federal financial aid are eligible. International students with need-based financial aid, including Davis Scholars, are also eligible.
To check to see if you receive federal financial aid, log into WebAdvisor and navigate to Financial Aid. If you receive a Federal Work-Study, a Pell Grant, or Federally Subsidized loans, you are eligible. If your financial aid is merit-based scholarships or unsubsidized loans, you are not eligible for this scholarship.
Yes. It will already be in our database whether or not you qualify, so if you want to check you are welcome to come into the office and we can help you out. College Outdoors staff does NOT see the details of your financial status nor how much aid you receive, but we can see if you qualify for our scholarships or not.
The funding comes from ASB and is allocated by the Student Organizations Committee to the College Outdoors Roundtable student steering committee, which directs the funds to be used in entirety for scholarships. ASB funding is supported by undergraduate student fees.
Additional scholarship funding for New Student Trips is available on a year-to-year basis, dependent on generous private donations.
If you are interested in contributing to the Scholarship Program through online donations, please follow the steps listed below.
1. Visit http://go.lclark.edu/college/give/now
2. Under “Please apply my gift to” select “College of Arts and Sciences”
3. Select “other” from the drop down menu and type in “College Outdoors Scholarship Fund” in the text box beside the drop down menu.
Participants will receive 50% off of the posted trip price for trips during the academic school year. Scholarships for our New Student Trips vary depending on financial aid status.
There are two main reasons for this decision. The first is that keeping all allotted aid equal between students was a requirement of ASB for funding. Second, this allows for a less-invasive protocol in giving out the scholarships.
Almost all of our trips offered have scholarships available for them. The Wilderness First Responder (WFR) course and WFR-Recertification courses do not qualify for ASB scholarships available at this time.
Yes, you can receive scholarships for as many trips as you sign up for if you qualify. You must fill out an application for scholarship program aid form for each trip, however.
No. If everyone on the trip is eligible, everyone will receive scholarships.
College Outdoors is located in room 239 of Fowler Student Center on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 188
email outdoors@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7116
Director Kori Campbell
College Outdoors
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219