School of General Studies
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Gifts to Columbia’s School of General Studies help solidify its preeminence as one of the nation’s most innovative educational enterprises, a college designed specifically to meet the needs of nontraditional students. Through the generosity of alumni and friends, GS can continue to build its endowment for long-term stability and growth, serve the immediate needs of its outstanding students and faculty, and strengthen financial aid as well as other programs that greatly enhance academic life.
Read more about the Campaign for Undergraduate Education.
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GS Annual Fund
Strengthen scholarships, student services, and other top priorities of GS.
Annual support enables GS to respond quickly as new opportunities arise. With gifts of $100 or more for the most recent graduates or $500 or more for others, donors are recognized as GS Associates. These alumni and friends receive invitations to special events and other opportunities to remain connected to the University.
For more information, contact:
Alicia Sanchez
Director, GS Annual Fund
Columbia Alumni Center
622 West 113th Street
New York, NY 10025
212-851-4167
Designate your scholarship to support undergraduates, including students in the Program for Academic Leadership (for economically disadvantaged students committed to public service), or those in the Post-baccalaureate Premedical Program. You will have the opportunity to meet your student or students at the Annual GS Scholarship Dinner as well as on other occasions.
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
$500,000
Back to College Program
Contribute to the success of students by supporting the Back to College Program, a program specifically designed to ensure that students returning to college after significant time away make a successful and smooth transition to the undergraduate classroom.
This endowment gift to the Back to College Program provides both academic and personal resources designed to help these students thrive.
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
Designate your scholarship to support undergraduates, including students in the Program for Academic Leadership (for economically disadvantaged students committed to public service), or those in the Post-baccalaureate Premedical Program. You will have the opportunity to meet your student or students at the Annual GS Scholarship Dinner as well as on other occasions.
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
Academic Resource Center
Keep academic support services strong from tutoring to time management and exam skills.
This endowment gift will help the Academic Resource Center enhance and expand critical resources, including the development of online undergraduate tutorials in conjunction with the Columbia Center for New Media, Teaching, and Learning.
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
$2,000,000
GS Core Curriculum
Continue the development of innovative Core Curriculum courses specially designed to meet the academic needs of GS students.
This endowment gift will also help support faculty and advanced graduated students who plan and teach the courses in the GS Core.
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
Help strengthen academic life by endowing the deanship of GS, which would carry the name of the donor or donors, forever celebrating this generosity.
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
$10,000,000
Program for Academic Leadership and Service
Open doors for exceptionally talented individuals who are economically disadvantaged.
Endowing the Program for Academic Leadership and Service provides full tuition scholarships as well as living stipends for outstanding students committed to public service. Many of them are the first in their families to attend college.
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
