Columbia University offering full tuition scholarships for Intro to Architecture/Intro to Urban Planning summer program targeting students of color.
Columbia GSAPP is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the IDC Foundation to establish the Hilyard Robinson Scholars Program offering full tuition scholarships for Intro to Architecture/Intro to Urban Planning summer program students. Named in honor of the School’s first African American graduate and former chair of the architecture department at Howard University, Hilyard Robinson scholarships are specifically aimed at undergraduate students currently enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and are intended to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity in the field of architecture and related fields and to introduce the possibility of career paths to underrepresented individuals. Many Intro to Architecture students later pursue graduate degrees at GSAPP, and the Hilyard Robinson Scholars Fund will support the recruitment of historically underrepresented groups to the School and the disciplines of the built environment at large.
Hilyard Robinson Scholars Fund
GSAPP receives $100,000 grant from the IDC Foundation to establish the Hilyard Robinson
Scholars Fund supporting full-tuition scholarships for Intro to Architecture/Intro to Urban
Planning students
June 1, 2021—Columbia GSAPP is pleased to announce that it has received a grant from the IDC
Foundation to establish the Hilyard Robinson Scholars Program offering full tuition scholarships
for Intro to Architecture/Intro to Urban Planning summer program students. Named in honor of
the School’s first African American graduate and former chair of the architecture department at
Howard University, Hilyard Robinson scholarships are specifically aimed at undergraduate
students currently enrolled in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and are intended to
promote diversity, inclusion, and equity in the field of architecture and related fields and to
introduce the possibility of career paths to underrepresented individuals. Many Intro to
Architecture students later pursue graduate degrees at GSAPP, and the Hilyard Robinson
Scholars Fund will support the recruitment of historically underrepresented groups to the
School and the disciplines of the built environment at large.
Beginning with the Summer 2021 session, the Robinson Scholars Program will provide
scholarship and non-tuition financial aid support for up to ten students who complete an
application through the admissions portal. Robinson Scholars will also have the opportunity to
hold an hourly paid position in the GSAPP Housing Lab, which may include work on a case study
for West Harlem Group Assistance. The Summer 2021 session is offered online and all
participation will be virtual.
Hilyard Robinson (1899-1986) graduated from Columbia University with a B.Arch in 1924 and an
M.S. in Architecture in 1931. Distinguished for his commitment to socially conscious design,
Robinson returned to his hometown of Washington, DC to live and work upon graduation, and
later spent nearly a year traveling internationally to study the design of public projects. While at
Columbia, he began teaching in the architecture program at Howard University, where he
served as Chair from 1928-1930, and where he remained deeply involved throughout his
lifetime. Learn more about Hilyard Robinson.
IDC Foundation (to be confirmed by the Foundation)
Founded in 2015, the IDC Foundation is the legacy of the Institute of Design and Construction,
which provided educational programs in fields relating to architectural design and building
construction until 2015 in Brooklyn, NY. The IDC Foundation’s funding was made possible by a
grant from the Institute to carry on its educational mission to provide training in those fields
and create new avenues for learning that improve and add to understanding of practices in
them.
Learn more about the IDC Foundation.
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