About the Gural Scholars Program
The Jeff Gural Academic Achievement and Opportunity Scholars Program ("Gural Scholars Program") is a scholarship program for students at Eugene Lang College. The program provides need based scholarships each year from orientation to graduation for up to ten Lang students for four distinct classes. The program is housed within Lang’s Office of Civic Engagement and Social Justice (CESJ).
The Gural Scholars program is more than a scholarship – it is a multi-year commitment to developing work and identity as a social justice scholar and activist. Scholars think critically about their personal relationships to power and privilege, and about how to challenge structural inequities and dismantle systems of oppression. They build a community with one another and outside of The New School through critical reflection, ethical engagement, and activism. The program connects them with Lang faculty and staff through one-on-one advising, monthly gatherings, annual program retreats, and events on and off campus.
Why we're seeking applications
The Gural Scholars Program is accepting applications from rising Lang sophomores, juniors and seniors. The program is available only to matriculated Lang students (including Lang BAFA students).
Scholarship details
Gural Scholarship is meant to meet a portion of unmet need and is not a full need scholarship. Scholarship amounts range from $1,000 - $10,000 per academic year and may fluxuate if unmet need fluxuates.
Program Expectations - READ CAREFULLY BEFORE APPLYING
As a member of the Lang community, you joined an institution committed to intellectual inquiry, civic engagement, and social and political justice. As a Gural Scholar, you and your cohort of peers will engage with these principles from day one.
Gural is more than just a scholarship program - it is a community built through connections in the classroom and beyond. As such, as part of admittance into the program, students will bewill be required to take a 2 credit course in the Fall and Spring semesters. These courses meet on Fridays from 12:55 - 2:35pm. We HIGHLY recommend students meet with their advisors to review their course schedule to ensure Gural is a possibility. If you are unable to take the course for Fall and Spring, you will be not be considered for the program.
Application form
Please complete all fields in the form below. Applications are due by Monday, May 3 at 3:00pm EST. Late applications will not be accepted.
The application is comprised of 3 sections - biographical information, short essay responses and a recommender form.
A recommender is requested for this application. Upon submitting your application, your recommender will receive a follow up email. Please alert your recommender ahead of time.
Pending the volume of applications, we may invite students for interviews for further review.
Please reach out to langCESJ@newschool.edu with any questions.