Join fellow Cal alumni to interview scholarship finalists for The Leadership Award (TLA) and The Achievement Award Program (TAAP) and strengthen your connection to Cal while networking with fellow alums and meeting prospective Cal students.
Interview panels are conducted via Zoom lead by the Alumni Scholarships & Engagement Program Program (ASEP) staff and volunteers. All interviewers are given an orientation that includes information about how to assess a candidate’s fit for the scholarship program and best practices for interviewing. The interview is conducted via a panel interview of fellow alum.
If you are interested in serving as an interviewer please register below to participate in interview events for 2026.
Since 1934, the Cal Alumni Association’s Alumni Scholarships & Engagement Program (ASEP) has provided scholarship support to undergraduate students at UC Berkeley. The ASEP currently awards more than $2.6 million dollars annually to incoming and continuing Cal undergraduates.
Katherine Fiordalis / Cal Alumni Association
Interviewers assess Alumni Scholarship applicants for the academic year and submit scoring to the Alumni Scholarship and Engagement Program team.
Volunteers must:
“It is refreshing and healing—liberating, actually—to see a new day, a new message to African American students, and to all of us,” Dana shares. “When I told one of the students that assisted in the interviews how much I appreciated her presence, she responded with, ‘Yes, but I am standing on your shoulders.’”
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