The University of Evansville TASL (Think, Act, Serve, Live) Scholars Program is a comprehensive program that embodies the University’s mission to empower each student to think critically, act bravely, serve responsibly, and live meaningfully in a changing world. The program promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion on the college campus. The program is driven by the fundamental belief that all human beings carry distinct social characteristics that inform how they move throughout the world. The TASL Scholars Program allows these individuals to attend the University as a cohort based on stage of life, dissimilar experiences, and similar concerns.

The TASL Scholars Program is guided by five pillars for success:

1. Envision: Contribute to imagining a campus environment where people, regardless of their differences and similarities, flourish individually and communally.
2. Engage: Sustain interactions with people, ideas, values, beliefs, and behaviors that are similar and dissimilar.
3. Enable: Remain engaged while solving isolation, tribalism, exclusion, and division.
4. Empower: Introduce intentional, measurable, and sustainable solutions.
5. Execute: Demonstrate inclusive leadership on the University campus.

Scholars selected for the cohort program will receive the following:

• Scholarship funding
• Academic support
• Social-emotional support
• Peer mentorship
• Vocational development

As first-year TASL Scholars, students are required to engage in a pre-college virtual summer program, weekly cohort meetings for credit during the first semester on campus, and a pre-selected ChangeLab class during the second semester. For more requirements, please see the TASL Scholarship Program Overview.