​The Kelly Elizabeth Stephens Memorial Scholarship​
KESSA in the News​
Presentation: Getting a Graduate Scholarship in Education to Boston University
Jakarta, May 2015
On May 22, 2015, KESSA scholars organized a sharing session in Getting a Graduate Scholarship for Education at Boston University.
Interview with Dean Coleman
Jakarta, November 2012
Hardin Coleman, dean of Boston University’s School of Education, was interviewed by one of Indonesian television stations about his visit to Indonesia to promote the Kelly Elizabeth Stephens Memorial Scholarship.
Concert for Guru
Jakarta, November 3rd, 2012
Alumni of KESSA and Alumni of Boston University are organizing a fundraising dinner to raise the quality teachers to improve education in Indonesia.
Study in The United States
SCTV, April 2009
Three KESSA schollars were being interviewed by SCTV, an Indonesian television station, regarding studying abroad through scholarship. The interview was conducted in Indonesian.
Teacher's legacy inspires Indonesian scholar at SED
B.U. Bridge, June 2001
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Agung Suprastayasa will not soon forget a young American woman he met in the early 1990s in his homeland of Indonesia. Kelly Stephens spent nine years there striving to improve education, in particular the teaching of English.
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Before Stephens' death in a volcanic explosion in 1993, Agung (SED'01) worked with her at an English language center in Bali. Six years later he entered Boston University's School of Education on a scholarship named in her honor.
Woman's memory lives on in scholarship for RI teachers
The Jakarta Post, January 2000
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JAKARTA (JP): The grief remains, but the parents of Kelly Stephens are dedicated to keeping her memory alive.
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A scholarship in her name is their way of ensuring their daughter's love of teaching and of her adopted Indonesian homeland will live on.
Robert and Dorothy Stephens said the inspiration for the Kelly E. Stephens Memorial Scholarship Fund came from the outpouring of support after Kelly was killed in 1993 in a freak accident on Anak Krakatau volcano.
Common passion to teach links BU grad student to scholarship's namesake
B.U. Bridge, October 1998
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The 1993 eruption of the Anak Krakatau -- a volcano off the coast of Java -- fatally injured Kelly Stephens, a 37-year-old Massachusetts resident living and working in Indonesia. Five years later, BU graduate student Evi Herawati (SED'00) is the first beneficiary of a scholarship that the Stephens family has established in Kelly's memory at the School of Education.