Stevens House Scholarship

The Stevens House Scholarship was established in 1992 by The Affiliates of UCLA to be awarded annually in the form of scholarships by the Stevens House Scholarship Selection Committee. Preference shall be given to undergraduate minority students with financial need and academic potential. The student must be a United States citizen.

Historical Note:
Stevens House was founded in 1948 and dedicated in the memory of Bishop William Bertrand Stevens, the head of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles from 1928 to 1947. It was an undertaking of the Intercultural Committee of the University Religious Conference at UCLA where Bishop Stevens served as President. Stevens House was a low-cost cooperative residence dormitory for UCLA undergraduate women. Its purpose was to provide housing to women and minority women attending UCLA who could not get campus housing elsewhere. It was one of the first institutions in Los Angeles to practice integration in education, providing an interracial and multicultural living environment for women at UCLA.

The first Stevens House was located at 1411 South Westgate Avenue in Los Angeles. The UCLA University Religious Conference operated the house until 1958; and in 1959, it sold the property to the non-profit Stevens House Corporation who operated the house through its Board of Directors. In 1959, the house moved to 820 Levering Avenue in Westwood. In 1972, it relocated to 638 Landfair Avenue. In 1992, the Board voted to close Stevens House and sold it with the profits donated to the UCLA Foundation to establish the Stevens House Scholarship.