The Black Alumni Scholarship Fund was founded at UC San Diego by Alumnus Lennon Goins, D.D.S in 1983.
The fund was moved off campus into an endowment at The San Diego Foundation (TSDF) in 1998 following the passage of CA Proposition 209.
The endowment has gradually grown to approximately $2 million divided between Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, and Math, Science & Engineering funds.
Following Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s announcement of the Black Academic Excellence Initiative (BAEI) at UCSD in 2016 as a BASF partner, the BASF started its Enriched Scholarship Program in collaboration with campus departments.
Enhancing diversity and inclusion at UCSD and in the San Diego region through scholarships and enrichment programs that expand educational opportunities for high achieving, civic-minded African American students.
Scholars are competitively selected from admitted Black students on the basis of prior community service, campus engagement intentions and resiliency to racial and other identity challenges.
100% of BASF Scholars identify as Black/African
American since award criteria are not constrained by Prop 209.
Scholarship and enrichments are tied
together in an OPT-OUT Program; participation in academic
and other enrichment activities are required for scholarship
renewal.
As it grows, the BASF Program will significantly increase Black enrollment at UCSD and add vitality to the San Diego region though increasing numbers of skilled, civic minded African Americans ready for careers in research, technology, education, business, the arts, and public service.
Increase Black graduation at UCSD from 2% to 5% of degrees awarded
Kyra Bader, MBA
Director of Operations Project Management, Quidel Ortho
Mae Brown, MS
UCSD Assistant Vice Chancellor, Enrollment Management (Retired)
Manuelita Brown, MS
Renowned Artist & Sculptor, Tsahai Studio
Pamela Frugé, MBA
Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Education
Rodney Hood, MD
Medical Practitioner, President Multicultural Health Foundation
Barry C Johnson, PhD
Sr. Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Honeywell International (Retired)
Board Member, UC San Diego Board of Trustees
Fnann Keflezighi, MA
UCSD Cross Cultural Center Director
Tylar Pendgraft, MFA
Director of Programs,
ReadyEdgeGo
LaWana Richmond, PhD
UCSD Business Development Manager
Sarah Spear-Barrett
Dean of Academic Advising (Retired)
Edward Spriggs, JD
UCSD Associate Vice Chancellor Student Affairs (Retired)
Mary Taylor, EDD
Associate Chief Diversity Officer for Outreach and Success, San Diego State University
Joseph Watson, PhD
UCSD Professor and Vice Chancellor Student Affairs Emeritus
Denise Whisenhunt
President of Grossmont College
Alonzo White, MD
Chief Medical Officer for Medicare, Blue Cross/Blue Shield
(Retired)