From the Davidson campus to cities around the world, the John Montgomery Belk Scholarship Program provides scholars with access to a rich diversity of experience during their undergraduate years.

The Belk Scholarship allows scholars great flexibility in the on- and off-campus opportunities they choose to explore. Those experiences, paired with Davidson's academic programs, deepen the scholars' intelligence, maturity, and global understanding.

The Belk Scholarship provides each scholar with two summer stipends, up to $3,000 each, to support intellectual, personal, and leadership development over the course of their college years. In recent years, Belk Scholars have used their stipends to explore their passions in this country and abroad. For instance, they have:

• studied Arabic language and culture in Yemen, Syria, and Jordan
• played semi-professional baseball and taught baseball clinics for local children
• studied Mandarin and conducted anthropological fieldwork on the role of rhetoric and debate in the developing Chinese civil society
• worked in Washington, D.C. with global volunteers, a private, non-profit, non-sectarian, non-governmental organization engaged in micro-economic and human development programs
• developed marketing strategies for a film project, Darius Goes West,while interning in Cambridge, England
• interned with the global Strategy Institute (GSI) of the Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C.
• attended the Colgate Writers' Conference at Colgate University in New York
• traveled in New Zealand and worked as part of Willing Workers On Organic Farms (WWOOF)
• interned with a House Representative through the Davidson in Washington Summer Program
  pursued independent research on the perception of education opportunities among intergenerational black men in Little Rock, Ark.
• studied the theory and practice of wildlife conservation at the School for Field Studies in Tanzania
• interned with Global Rights India, an organization that works to expand women's access to justice
• volunteered with Help Argentina, a non-profit organization that assists low-income populations in the country's northern Salta region.