The Julia & Ken Gouw Undergraduate Centennial Scholarship funds UCLA undergraduate students to attend an immersion and volunteer program in Bali for summer 2025. Deadline: April 15, 2025

Through a generous endowment by Julia and Ken Gouw and a match by the Chancellor’s Centennial Scholars Fund, the UCLA Center for Southeast Asian Studies offers this summer scholarship to UCLA undergraduate students only. Priority is given to undergraduate students who have taken Indonesian language. The scholarship will cover the student's program fees and homestay accommodations and provide $1485 to the student for international airfare and living stipend. Students are only expected to cover their own personal expenses. Scholarship recipients are expected to submit a 1-2 page report within two months after the program ends.

The summer language and cultural immersion program:

• 2 weeks in Bali, Indonesia - August 4-15, 2025 at Ngurah Rai University
• First week - 20 hours of classroom instruction and site visits for language and cultural learning
• Followed by one week (possibility of extension to 2 weeks) of volunteer after the language & cultural training ends. It can be done outside Bali as well but the organization needs to provide the accommodation and the transportation for the student.
• Volunteer work at local schools, universities, NGOs, or community groups (e.g. arts, traditional music, education, environment, etc.)
• Living with homestay family (during the language and cultural learning and the volunteer week)

Interested students should submit:

• 1-2 page proposal which details your interests in Indonesia including personal background, previous study including any language or Southeast Asian Studies coursework, campus involvement, and/or other extracurricular activities and what you plan to do during your volunteer work and its value to your academic experience;
• An unofficial transcript;
• Contact information for one professional reference or academic adviser/faculty mentor. We will contact your reference to make them aware of your application.

DEADLINE: April 15, 2025

APPLY HERE