SCHOLARSHIPS ARE OPPORTUNITIES
Scholarships and fellowships represent opportunities. They enable students to pursue the education that will help them achieve their dreams and shape their future. They enable the University to recruit gifted students who will contribute to the quality of the academic experience for all students and forge lifelong relationships with their classmates and school. For New School University, a place built on the conviction that education can change the world and the principle that education is for all, scholarships are a concrete step toward fulfilling our promise.
Generous donors have given private support for scholarships and fellowships around the University. Some have made contributions to the schools’ general scholarship funds, some have designated their gifts to be spent to support students who meet specific criteria, and some have established endowed funds that will be invested by the University to support students for generations to come.
University Trustee
Strachan Donnelley, an alumnus of the
Graduate Faculty, has committed $1 million to the division to be paid over five years, the majority of which will be awarded in the form of student fellowships. Mr. Donnelley’s generous gift also will benefit the Dean’s Discretionary Fund. In addition, Graduate Faculty Board of Governors member
Ilse Melamid has established two new endowments, the Ilse and Alexander Melamid Prize Fellowship and the Ilse and Alexander Melamid Dissertation Fellowship, with an estate gift from her husband, Graduate Faculty alumnus
Alexander Melamid.
Raising money for general scholarships in the
Jazz Program is a top priority for the Jazz Vanguard, and
some donors have established endowed scholarships as well. Two such endowed funds are the
Henry and Gilda Block Scholarship Fund and the
Kenneth Kolker Scholarship Fund. These funds are invested with the University’s pooled assets to earn income in perpetuity that directly benefits young jazz musicians. In addition, a generous bequest from the estate of
Sandra Kaltman established the Sandra Kaltman-Young Beacons in Jazz Scholarship, benefiting students with outstanding promise and academic merit.
Two recently established scholarship funds for
Eugene Lang College students are the Lewis Rudin Memorial
Scholarship Fund, an unrestricted scholarship fund named in memory of the father of University Trustee
Beth Rudin DeWoody, and the Tishman Environmental Merit Scholarship, established by University Trustee
John Tishman to support students interested in environmental issues and to enable them to learn through environmental internships in Alaska.
Seth Glickenhaus has been funding Glickenhaus Fellows at the
Milano Graduate School for many years. Mr. Glickenhaus’s support has assisted students concentrating in areas ranging from nonprofit management to human resources and finance.
University Trustee
Robert Hoerle and his wife
Sheila have generously supported
Parsons School of Design students and initiatives for many years. In academic year 2003-2004, three students received scholarships from the endowed Robert Hoerle Scholarship Fund, and an additional 15 students were assisted through expendable financial aid support given by Mr. and Mrs. Hoerle.
The Starr Foundation has generously established and augmented two endowed scholarships that have enabled many deserving students to pursue their education at
Parsons School of Design and
Mannes College of Music. Support from the foundation for these two funds now totals over $1 million.
