For Community Colleges

The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation works with Cabrillo, Hartnell, and Monterey Peninsula College to award scholarships to low-income women with a history of outstanding academic success and intent to give back their community. Campus leadership from each participating community college nominates three women to be considered for the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Scholarship. For more information on community college participation, please see the guidelines below.

Guidelines for Participating Community Colleges:

Tips for Participating Community Colleges:

• We encourage community colleges to publicize our scholarship as early and often as possible
• Work with the transfer center to advertise scholarship to students.
• Make a request to faculty each year to ask for nominations of students.
• Utilize existing resources, such as a writing skills tutor, to review applications and work with students on improvements before final submission.
• The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Scholarship emphasizes both outstanding academic background and clear financial need. The Foundation would like colleges to prioritize submitting applicants who are women of color, immigrant women, and/or undocumented residents who are AB540 eligible.
• Community colleges are responsible for confirming the eligibility of students to attend UC colleges. The community college should conduct due diligence to confirm an applicant’s AB540 eligibility prior to nominating a student. Please keep this in consideration when selecting nominees.

The community college will be responsible for the following requirements:

• Each year, the community college must confirm their participation via email and distribute only the current application materials. Please be sure to update your website and outreach materials with the most up to date language and requirements.
• The community college must set an internal application due date that allows for the timely submission of complete applications. In setting this due date, please consider the following:
  • Due dates of other scholarship programs.
  • An earlier due date or due date aligned with other programs will simplify application deadlines for students.
  • Sufficient time to provide feedback and support for students to edit and improve their applications.
  • Sufficient time for review and selection by campus leadership of the community college.
• Campus leadership from the community college must nominate three students to be considered for this scholarship.
• By March 15, the community college must provide the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation with the top three candidates’ complete applications, according to the Student Application Instructions section.
  • Each application must include a copy of the Information Release Form signed by the student so that the Foundation can obtain relevant information regarding the student’s financial aid, grades, transfer records, etc.
  • The community college is also responsible for submitting an Initial Application Eligibility Confirmation along with each student’s application.
• The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation will select the recipients from among each college’s nominees. The Foundation will notify the community college counselor by April 15. The counselor will inform the scholarship recipient of their award.
• The community college and/or student will notify the Foundation of student admittance to a UC campus as soon as this information is available.
• In the event that the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation determines that no candidate from a given college satisfactorily meets the selection criteria, no scholarship will be awarded.
• Considerations for accepting additional scholarships:
  • The Foundation wants to ensure as many students as possible receive scholarships to be able to attend the UC of their choice. Students applying to other large scholarships, such as the Karl S. Pister Leadership Opportunity Scholarship or the Jack Kent Cooke Transfer Scholarships, are eligible to apply to the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Scholarship, but if selected for a large scholarship, must decide which scholarship to accept. This allows us to award the scholarship to another student.
  • The maximum scholarship amount often exceeds the expenses listed on a student’s university bill and, instead of being refunded to the student, these additional funds are absorbed by the university, leading to a reduction of the amount of free gift aid previously awarded to the student. The Foundation is, unfortunately, unable to send scholarships directly to students, which would be the only way to prevent this.
  • If a student who has applied for or has been awarded the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Scholarship decides to transfer to a non-UC university, they must notify the Foundation so that the scholarship can be awarded to another student in time for the UC “Declaration of Intent to Register” deadline.