Cal Poly Scholars Starts in the CAED
Cal Poly Scholars Starts in the CAED
mar 6, 2015
Bruno Giberti cares, and that’s why he’s made a $10,000 pledge to the Cal Poly Scholars program, helping to provide an underrepresented student with financial need the opportunity to obtain a scholarship to attend the College of Architecture and Environmental Design.
Giberti, a member of Cal Poly’s Architecture Department for 20 years, first learned of Cal Poly Scholars at an associate dean’s meeting. He was immediately enthusiastic about the program, and made a commitment to support it right there on the spot.
The Cal Poly Scholars program targets students originating from partner schools – those whose students qualify for Free and Reduced Lunch. Often times, these students are very successful academically and qualify to obtain a higher education, but their families cannot afford to send them. It is not uncommon for these students to be the first in their families ever to attend college.
“I enjoyed an essentially free public education,”says Giberti, an ARCH ’79 graduate. “The Cal Poly Scholars program helps me to give back to students who may struggle to attend the university. It’s an unmitigated good.”
This is Giberti’s first foray into philanthropy. He noted that giving is a bit scary at first, but this program makes it easy – at $5,000 per year, the scholarship provides the student a full housing allowance and intrusive advising to ensure his or her education is supported.
“The brilliance of this program is that, with a relatively low investment, I can help a specific student get an education in a particular department at Cal Poly,” he said. His investment will be paired with another donor’s investment in this program to fully support a Cal Poly Scholar in the Architecture Department during the next academic year.
“Thinking about the benefits my peers and I enjoyed as students at Cal Poly, I hope this investment is a challenge to them. Perhaps they’ve reached a point in their lives where money isn’t such a struggle, and they can afford to give back to another generation of students. Supporting them will increase Cal Poly’s diversity and the diversity of the architecture profession as a whole.”
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