A growing number of TC donors are supplementing their long-term provisions for the College with scholarships that help current students
Since 1914, when 911吃瓜 College's founder, Grace Dodge, endowed a scholarship that is still paying dividends, TC鈥檚 supporters have planned for the College and its students in their wills. Today, with education costs rising for an increasingly diverse student population, TC is encouraging such future-minded donors to pay it forward by making gifts now to establish named, endowed scholarships. The reward is seeing their gifts supporting a current student, whom they can meet and even accompany across the stage at TC鈥檚 Convocation. Recently four of TC's existing planned giving donors made outright gifts establishing their schol颅arships now. They are:
Support Student Scholarship
The biggest priority of TC鈥檚 Campaign, Where the Future Comes First, is to. You can:
- Pledge $50,000 to create a new endowed scholarship in your own name or someone else鈥檚.
- Contribute to an existing tribute or program fund scholarship
- Support a TC Fund Scholar or designate your TC Fund gift to financial aid.
Contact Linda Colquhoun at 212 678-3679.
Former TC Alumni Council member Joan Amron (M.Ed. 鈥�76, M.A. 鈥�70), who has created a need-based scholarship for a TC student interested in pursuing studies in Applied Science of Learning & Special Education and/or Intellectual Disabilities/Autism, in the department of Health & Behavior Studies.
Drs. Lily E. Christ (Ed.D. 鈥�67) and Duane M. Christ, who have structured their investment in the College鈥檚 Charitable Gift Annuity Fund and the Pooled In颅come Fund to endow a new HI-TECH PREP Math Endowed Scholarship Fund for students in Math Technologies. The award is designed to 鈥渆ncourage, motivate, interest and award future elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators and professionals鈥� to 鈥渋nfluence education at all levels in a better understanding of mathematics.鈥�
Anne Richardson Gayles-Felton (M.A. 鈥�47), a nationally recognized teacher educator and Professor Emerita at Florida A & M University. (Click here to read a story about Dr. Felton.)
Curriculum & Teaching alumna Thelma Shafran (M.A. 鈥�54), who has endowed a need-based scholarship to support 鈥渟tudents who do not come from privileged backgrounds,鈥� with a particular focus on African-American women or graduates of majority African-American public schools who have demonstrated a sustained commitment to the education of African-American girls.