EQUITY ACCESS

Scholarships

Your payment helps us make more positive change. We give away a minimum of 20% of all of our content for free, and revenue generated from sales of courses, handbooks and toolkits helps us design, develop and create more creative tools for activating positive change.

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The UnSchool is committed to providing equitable and accessible programs, courses, and tools to our change-maker communities around the world. 

We give away a minimum of 20% of our content for free which you can find here.

Any payments you make not only covers the expenses of creating and running courses and programs, but it helps us to build forward, to add more programs and projects, and to offer scholarship assistance as part of our equity access policy.

As part of our goal to make our programs equitable, we offer both partial scholarships and payment plans. Our limited number of scholarships are awarded based on demonstrated need to certain select courses and programs. We fund these to promote equitable access to our programs. We are committed to offering our scholarships to community members who would otherwise be unable to access a program at all.

We offer additional support for those identifying as from First Nations, Aboriginal, Native or other Indigenous communities, which you can indicate in the application form.

We offer scholarships at our own discretion as part of our commitment to equitable and fair access and to maintain a sustainable business model whereby we are able to continue to design, build and support incredible content for creative change makers around the world. 

If you need a scholarship or alternative payment plan for any of our products or services, you can apply at any time. We encourage everyone to apply for scholarships if they feel that they would not be able to access our courses otherwise. Please help us build change by only applying for a scholarship if you have a clear need and have no other way of raising the tuition costs. 

Requests are reviewed on an individual basis and you will be notified by email only if your request has been approved. 

Please note that scholarships are not available for Educator or UnMasters Certification tracks, as they require significant human resources from the UnSchool to manage and run.
RESOURCE DISTRIBUTION

We work hard to distribute our resources to support our applicants and between 2015-2024 have given well over $500K worth of scholarships to our online and in person programs.

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Eligibility and Considerations

  • Have you had some/many opportunities for advancing your learning already? If you are requesting a scholarship because you have already invested in a higher degree program or other programming, you may not be eligible as priority consideration will go to those who have not had the privilege of advanced programming yet in their lives.
  • Do you have resources or networks that you could tap into for tuition support? If so, please reach out to source funds from your personal networks so we may utilize our funds for applicants who do not have such safety nets.
  • Have you reached out to your employer to request professional development reimbursement? If not, please do so before submitting a scholarship request.
  • Have you considered creative ways of sourcing funds such as crowdfunding campaigns or developing products or services to sell. Creativity is at the core of what we do, and we encourage all our participants to come up with alternative options for discovering resources.

While an open policy, scholarships especially apply to historically marginalized communities, persons from First Nations, Aboriginal, Native or other Indigenous communities, and people who live in places that are vulnerable to climate-related impacts and inequitable pay gaps.

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