The Yardi Scholarship Program: Bringing technology to the service of democracy
Created with a generous gift from software engineer and founder of Yardi Systems Anant Yardi ’69, the Yardi Scholarship Program encourages top-tier Berkeley students — particularly those who are the first in their families to attend college, including transfer students — to cultivate an interest in leveraging technology to advance democratic principles.
The Yardi Scholarship Program, offered through the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters & Science and the College of Engineering, invites students who are eligible for the prestigious Regents and Chancellor’s scholarship to join a cohort of their peers who share a drive to create insightful, publicly-minded solutions to the many challenges to democracy that we currently face...