I do not overstate when I say that the Davis United World College Scholars Program may be the most important philanthropic effort currently underway to support higher education in America and, in particular, to strengthen relations between the United States and various countries and cultures around the globe. The underlying idea is powerful and elegant in its simplicity: bring together on American college campuses students from varying national, economic, and ethnic backgrounds, united by their shared passion for service and global citizenship, and allow them to be taught and inspired, and to teach and inspire one another. Then let them move into local, national, and international communities and effect positive change. What could be more basic and, in the long term, more beneficial to the world we share?
”— Brian Rosenberg
President
Macalester College