Welcome to the official website of the McKelvy Scholars Program. If you are looking for information about the program, becoming involved with our community, or just browsing, feel free to peruse our site at your leisure. You are also welcome to contact us with any questions you may have.
In just the 2026-27 year alone, McKelvy Scholars are Marquis Fellows, Posse Scholars, CaPA Scholars, Head RAs, TAs, RAs, and EcoReps majoring in 26 separate departments and programs across all four divisions of the college. They are Writing Associates, Supplemental Instructors (SIs), EXCEL Scholars, and Dyer Fellows writing honors theses and conducting research on bees, Phytophthora infestans, birds, plant genetics, and atmospheric chemistry. They are a senior captain of the football team and members of Club Tennis, the rock climbing team, Equestrian Team, and Lafayette Outdoors Society (LOSt), as well as dancers in Salsa Club and the Pardettes, singers in Lafayette Mar-Keys, Marquis players, and Soulfege, and actors in the theater. They run LaFarm’s West Ward Market farmstand and are members of several dozen campus organizations, where they hold leadership positions in Student Government, the International Student Association (ISA), Refugee Action, the Pre-Dental Society, Hispanic Finance Association, Newman Catholic Association, Women in Computing, Latino Medical Student Association, Women’s Network, Raíces, Combating Human Trafficking Initiative, Lafayette Office of Sustainability, Women in Law and Economics, and NIA sisterhood. They work in the Landis Center, Williams Art Center, and Religious & Spiritual Life (RSL) and for the Gateway Career Center, the Hanson Center for Inclusive STEM Education, a non-profit education initiative called Amazolar, a nail artist business, and various political campaigns in PA. They serve as Kaleidoscope peer educators, a tutor that helps Polish students learn English, and a Mentor Coordinator for First Generation students at Lafayette. And they are proud to be from and represent China, Côte D’Ivoire and Benin, Ghana, Kenya, Mongolia, Nigeria, Peru, South Korea, and handfuls of states across the U.S. All that and they are caretakers for a historic 1880s Victorian neo-Gothic masterpiece on beautiful College Hill too.
Stay tuned for updates about the 2026-27 scholars’ community as they happen. In the meantime, see here for summaries of recent discussions.