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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?

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— Brian Rosenberg

President
Macalester College

Princeton Honors Graduating Davis UWC Scholar

Josh Grehan

Josh Grehan, Princeton Honors Graduate

As he graduates from Princeton, Davis UWC Scholar Josh Grehan (Canada, Lester B. Pearson UWC of the Pacific) hopes to build a career that promotes social justice. The two years he’ll spend at Oxford University, thanks to the 2010 Daniel M. Sachs Graduating Scholarship, one of Princeton’s highest undergraduate awards, will help him learn what he needs to do that.

Josh attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton; he’ll next work for a master’s degree in economic and social history at Oxford’s Worcester College. The Sachs Scholarship is given to a Princeton senior who best exemplifies the character and commitment of Daniel Sachs, the late Princeton football star who attended Worcester College as a Rhodes Scholar.

Raised in Saskatchewan, Josh spent much of his childhood living in native villages, where his mother worked as a civil-rights advocate. That led him to focus on social justice and public policy at Princeton, where he was active on many levels. “He is a natural leader,” said Professor Marta Tienda, his senior thesis advisor.

“I hope to one day return to Saskatchewan and work to combat issues of racism between the native and white populations,” Josh said. The program at Oxford will help him learn the historical background of the inequities he hopes to address.

“The opportunities that have been provided to me while I was young have allowed me to end up where I am now,” Josh said. “I have a large debt to repay.”