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Garett Staley ‘06, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship

Garett Staley '06

Staley worked at PROTOTYPES, one of the nation's leading multi-service, non-profit agencies that help homeless women and their children who are dealing with complex problems. The funding is provided by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Association. “Ms. Staley has overwhelmingly proven that education stands as perhaps the greatest mechanism by which at-risk and marginalized groups may pull themselves out of crises,” Pitzer College’s Dean of Faculty Alan Jones said. 

Of her education at Pitzer Staley said, “I feel completely prepared for graduate school. Professor Stromberg was an amazing qualitative teacher—very organized and she made us be organized. Qualitative was probably my favorite class; I saw sociology at work in real life and have now found a lifetime’s worth of things I could do further study on.”

The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation is a private, independent foundation established in 2000 through the will of Jack Kent Cooke. When he died on April 6, 1997, Mr. Cooke left most of his fortune to establish the Foundation.

Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Scholarship
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship Program awards approximately 35 scholarships to seniors and recent graduates planning to attend graduate school for the first time starting in fall 2008. Each award covers a portion of educational expenses, including tuition, living expenses, required fees, and books for the graduate degree chosen. The amount and duration of awards vary by student based on the cost of attendance and the length of the graduate program as well as other scholarships or grants received. The maximum available per student per year of study is $50,000 and the maximum length is six years.
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