The role of a mentor for the first-generation college student
Our scholars — just because they are scholars — sometimes create an extra bit of conflict with the closest people in their lives: their parents and other family members. Having experienced 40-plus years of occasional strains in family relationships because I’m a first-in-the-family college graduate and card-carrying egghead, I’m always concerned about how scholars are […]
‘We are ready to take on the world’
Between mock job interviews and resume-building workshops, celebration took the forefront at the Earl Woods Scholarship Program Winter Workshop.
TWF holds annual Earl Woods Scholarship Program Winter Workshop
Sixty-seven scholars travel to Anaheim, Calif., for two-day workshop at Tiger Woods Learning Center.
From Tiger to Edgar: Breaking the cycle
“I want to be the best I can be. I want to make my parents proud. But I want to do even more than that — I want to be a first-generation college student.” -Edgar, TWF Scholar
As I walked to my new home … all I saw were dumpsters and needles
Freshman Rosa Trujillo is breaking the cycle of poverty as she attends UCLA where she is an applied mathematics major.
Leaving the nest
“Getting my Dad on board with going away to college was not something that happened over night.”
Charting new territories
Earl Woods Scholarship Program takes on New York!
Welcome the new class of cycle breakers!
Wheelock College hosts Tiger Woods Foundation’s new class of Earl Woods Scholars.
Anita refused to be deprived of her education
Tiger Woods Foundation scholar Anita Chheang has seen how difficult life can be without an education and refuses to let anything keep her from one.
It’s not a checkbook organization
Tiger Woods Foundation scholar Lenny Baez speaks at Deutsche Bank Championship’s Media Day on his journey from living in a tough neighborhood to becoming a first-generation college student.
