Let's make Waves! Seaver College awards a number of merit and need-based scholarships to students each year. Your help in making these awards possible allows us to continue to pass on our Pepperdine values.  The Scholarship Committee awards scholarships based on merit, need, academic, and professional experience, as well as standardized test scores.

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The Social Entrepreneurship & Change program prepares socially conscious individuals to make a lasting impact by analyzing complex social problems, creating sustainable market-based solutions, and improving management and leadership skills. Learning culminates with a two-term capstone project devising a new social enterprise or related project within an existing organization. Students develop a thorough business plan in collaboration with successful mentors and faculty who are scholar-practitioners and nationally recognized experts. Validated ideas are presented to industry leaders in a "Shark Tank" style Fast Pitch Competition with multiple participants receiving funding to launch their venture.

Help support the next generation of social entrepreneurs!

[Hello Parents of the class of 2028!  We're opening up donations to The Mountain to you! Your support and involvement as a donor mean more to us than the size of your contribution, as we believe in the power of a united community working together for a greater cause.]

Elevating the student experience and actively advancing the university's commitment to growing an authentic community of belonging, The Mountain will transform Pepperdine's campus life and raise the standard of excellence for our Waves athletics teams. Not only will this state-of-the-art complex be home to leading fitness and well-being resources for the entire Pepperdine community, the estimated 3,600-seat arena will give our basketball and indoor volleyball teams an extraordinary home court facility commensurate with those of our top competitors throughout the West Coast Conference.

The Urban Initiative of the Graduate School of Education and Psychology (GSEP) seeks to link community partners committed to understanding and addressing the mental health and educational issues of the underserved in Los Angeles and around the world. The aim of the Urban Initiative is to develop transformative solutions to social problems that have both a humanitarian value and are grounded in problem-oriented perspectives.GSEP has a long tradition of engagement with its urban neighbors. For more than 50 years, we have been preparing teachers, administrators, and mental health workers for service in their communities. Building on that history of service, we developed the Urban Initiative to deepen the link between GSEP professional preparation programs, community partners, and the education and mental health needs of those in urban settings.The unique structure of GSEP as a graduate school of both education and psychology affords the expertise in designing interdisciplinary approaches to solving complex urban problems in both the educational and mental health spheres."For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me…” (Matthew 25:35 KJV). "It is incumbent upon us to serve our fellow man. The Urban Initiative continues to connect community partners and thought leaders committed to understanding and addressing the mental health and educational issues of the underserved." - Dr. Lonnie McNamee; Assistant Dean of Faculty Development & Administration Executive Director of Urban Initiative. Make a gift on this special giving day to support this initiative for changing the conditions for people in need!