Barbara White Slyker Endowed Scholarship for Education

The Barbara White Slyker Endowed Scholarship for Education provides scholarship support to upper-division, teaching credential and graduate students in the College of Education who are preparing to become future teachers. Eligible students include those majoring in Liberal Studies or Child and Family Development, as well as those pursuing a teaching credential or enrolled in a graduate program within the College of Education.

If you do not meet all of these requirements in a given term, you may lose your scholarship eligibility and your scholarship may be canceled.

Requirements:

• Recipients must be one of the following:
  o Upper-division students majoring in Liberal Studies or Child and Family Development in the College of Education.
  o Teaching credential students in the College of Education.
  o Graduate-level students in the College of Education.
• Recipients must be preparing to become teachers.
• Recipients are not required to be enrolled full-time.

Donor Profile:

Barbara White Slyker was born and raised in Coronado, California. Although she spent most of her adult life in the San Francisco Bay area, Barbara also lived in Alaska, Texas, Spain and Nigeria with her children and husband Robert.

Barbara loved to learn. In her pursuit of knowledge, she received a Bachelor of Science and Fifth Year Credential in Education from San Diego State University and a Master of Arts in Sociology from Holy Names College in Oakland. She also completed graduate studies in education and Spanish at St. Luis University in Madrid, Spain. Barbara’s love of learning was not limited to academia; her interests spanned a wide range of subjects including Spanish, flute and piano music, computers, racquet sports, social work, people, and the human condition. She pursued these interests with as much enthusiasm and focus as she did her formal degrees.

Not only was Barbara a student, but she was also a teacher. Whether in front of a high school or junior college class or facilitating a social work project in her community, both in the United States and overseas, she had a passion for teaching. She once said that she loved to teach because the process of teaching is dynamic. In the give and take of the learning environment, both the student and the teacher grow and learn.

Barbara was fun, loving, and playful. She brought people together to learn and to celebrate the joy of living. This scholarship is in her memory. Barbara passed away at age 59 in July 2002 after a long illness.