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Columbia College is the Ivy League school on Broadway. As a small College in a large research university, it offers a wide range of majors, a nationally known Core Curriculum, an international city as an extended classroom, and a residential experience designed to enable students to learn extensively from each other. Assisted by its need-blind admissions and full-need financial aid policies, the College enrolls one of the most diverse student bodies among its peers. Since 1754, Columbia’s original school has been graduating students who are recognized for their independent voices, creative imaginations, civic concerns, leadership capacities, urban expertise, and adaptable skills. Through Campaign gifts supporting financial aid, student programs, faculty projects, donors will renew that tradition for generations to come.
Read more about the Campaign for Undergraduate Education.
Any Amount
The College Fund
Provide essential year-to-year support to financial aid, student services, and the Core Curriculum—areas that directly affect the lives of undergraduate
students.
College Fund gifts of all sizes allow the College to allocate funds to its greatest immediate needs. Gifts also can be designated for financial aid, student affairs, Core Curriculum, the Alumni Internship Fund, or the Parents Fund. Since the fund year runs from July through June, gifts must be received by June 30 to be counted in that fund year.
For more information, contact:
Susan Birnbaum
Executive Director
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 851-7947
$1,500
John Jay Associates Program
Become a leadership donor and provide critical annual support to undergraduate education.
John Jay Associates are the leadership donors of the Columbia College Fund and are given special recognition each year. The John Jay Associates generate almost 80 percent of the funds raised by the College on a yearly basis. Benefits to becoming a John Jay Associate donor include invitations to College events and acknowledgement in the Annual Report.
For more information, contact:
Susan Birnbaum
Executive Director
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 851-7947
$10,000
Named Current-Year Scholarship
Help fund a need-based scholarship for a Columbia College student this year.
Support the College's need-blind admissions and full-need financial aid policies, enabling Columbia to continue to enroll one of the most economically, ethnically, and racially diverse student bodies among its peers.
For more information, contact:
Susan Birnbaum
Executive Director
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 851-7947
$25,000
Students' Academic and Community Fund
Enrich undergraduate life this year. Enhance lectures, symposia, exhibitions, celebrations and other special programs
Enhance lectures, symposia, exhibitions, celebrations and other special programs
For more information, contact:
Susan Birnbaum
Executive Director
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 851-7947
$100,000
Named Partial Endowed Scholarships
Enable students, including those from low-income families, to graduate without debt.
Endow a fund that replaces loans with need-based scholarship grants for students whose annual family income is under $50,000 or consider an endowment gift of $1 million, providing a full scholarship for one student each year.
For more information, contact:
Andrea Rounds
Director of Development, Arts and Sciences
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 851-7495
Endow a fund that provides a career-related summer internship for one student each year. Opportunities include the SURF summer internship for hands-on laboratory research in the biological sciences and the I.I. Rabi internship for work in the physical sciences, as well as summer opportunities in the arts and humanities.
For more information, contact:
Susan Birnbaum
Executive Director
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 851-7947
$150,000
The Kluge Challenge: Named Endowed Scholarship
Help a talented College student from a low-income family.
Establish a named endowed scholarship for students in Columbia College and make a $50,000 gift to the College Fund for financial aid. John Kluge '37CC will match your gift on a one-to-one basis, and all College financial aid endowment gifts above this level as well.
For more information, contact:
Andrea Rounds
Director of Development, Arts and Sciences
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 851-7495
$1,000,000
Named Endowed Scholarships
Provide full support for a worthy student to attend Columbia College for one year.
This fund helps talented students, including those from low-income families, to graduate without debt.
For more information, contact:
Andrea Rounds
Director of Development, Arts and Sciences
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 851-7495
$1,000,000
Endowed Postdoctoral Core Lectureship
Enhance teaching in the Core Curriculum, whether in Frontiers of Science, Contemporary Civilization, or Literature Humanities.
Launch the career of a talented and experienced Columbia postdoctoral lecturer.
For more information, contact:
Andrea Rounds
Director of Development, Arts and Sciences
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 851-7495
$1,500,000
The Tam Challenge for Endowed Professorships
Help to create 10 chairs for existing faculty and sustain this the size and quality
of our teaching faculty.
Named professorships are the highest academic honor a university bestows on its faculty. As such, the
recognition they provide is important in recruiting the best faculty to come to Columbia and in encouraging
them to stay. Professors eligible to be named to chairs created under the Tam Challenge are among the
leading scholars in their fields.
For more information, contact:
Andrea Rounds
Director of Development, Arts and Sciences
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
(212) 851-7495
