The Baruch College Fund makes it possible for students to experience smaller classes and hands-on faculty.
Our primary mission is to educate the next generation of professional and civic leaders. More than 15,000 students enroll at Baruch each year in order to pursue their educational dreams. Your support will help ensure that all students are able to attend and to receive the best possible education, both inside and outside the classroom.
All gifts to The Baruch College Funds directly support:
- Scholarships
- Academic Programs
- Faculty development
- Research Initiatives
- Endowed Chairs and Professorships
- Library
- Technology and Computing
- Arts and Culture
- Athletics
- Students with Disabilities
In addition, you may also designate a specific purpose for your gift, for example by naming a classroom.
Scholarships
A large percentage of Baruch's student population is comprised of college students who come from ethnically diverse, lower-income, and immigrant families. Many of them are the first in their families to go to college. One of the most rewarding ways to help transform a student's life is to enhance her or his chances of completing a degree. Currently, the undergraduate tuition for New York State residents is $4,000 per year ($2,000 per semester). Including the cost of books and fees with adjustments due to inflation, the full cost for the academic year amounts to $5,000 to $6,000 (living expenses are additional).
Contact David Shanton via email or at 646 660-6065 to discuss setting up a scholarship in your name!
Academic Programs
Baruch College is comprised of the Zicklin School of Business, the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Public Affairs and the Continuing and Professional Studies program. Baruch's myriad of undergraduate and graduate programs offer students the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the world around them. Whether they choose to pursue a broad liberal arts education or focus on a narrow course of study, Baruch encourages scholarship at the highest levels, with an emphasis on real world applications.
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Faculty Development
To provide the best students with an excellent education, Baruch College hires leading scholars and experts. Baruch encourages the faculty to maintain their life-long commitment to education by requiring them to develop skills in teaching and to participate in conferences within their chosen fields of study. Faculty Development funds provide faculty with resources to ensure that Baruch's students continue to learn the most current theories and applications.
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Research Initiatives
At Baruch College, we recruit great faculty and researchers, and invest in College's labs, spaces, technology, and research materials they need to succeed. Research is conducted within all three academic schools and at the continuing education division. Interdisciplinary and specialized research projects are housed at the College 16 academic research centers, institutes and groups. Foundations are using the advances emerging from these research programs to develop innovative new solutions to business and social problems.
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Endowed Chairs and Professorships
Endowed chairs are the hallmark of a great university and are the highest form of recognition in scholarship and teaching. Endowed chairs are full-time faculty or administrative positions that are held by individuals who have achieved an outstanding reputation in their fields.
Endowed chairs enable Baruch to offer market-rate salaries to individuals who are the best in their fields. This allows us to secure and sustain quality faculty in the face of stiff competition. It also allows us to offer innovative curriculums that are not dependent wholly on tuition or state dollars. By endowing a chair, you initiate a cycle of excellence: top faculty members attract excellent students, and these students attract recruiters who hire them. Successful students give back to the College, which helps Baruch to continue to strengthen its academic standing.
Contact Chris Cloud via email or at 646.660.6060 to discuss setting up an endowment in your name!
Library
The 1,450-seat William and Anita Newman Library provides the Baruch community with access to several hundred online databases through the Dow Jones News/Retrieval, LEXIS/NEXIS, and DIALOG services and to information resources in CD-ROM format, in addition to traditional holdings. Remote access to thousands of full-text journals, newspapers, and books, as well as a real-time Web-based reference desk, provides students with library access without geographic restriction and with greatly expanded service (in some cases 24-hours, seven days a week). The William and Anita Newman Library was named the top college library in the nation for 2003 by the Association of Research and College Libraries/American Library Association.
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Technology and Computing
At Baruch College, technology is being used to facilitate-but not replace-traditional education. With students juggling jobs and families while pursuing a degree, the computer provides a tool for them to keep up with their studies and stay connected to the Baruch community. A recent survey indicated that 95% of Baruch students have a computer at home, the highest percentage of any of the City University of New York colleges. Baruch students' dedication to their studies, whether their study time is on or off campus, means that technology has to be kept on the cutting edge.
Support Baruch's technology programs through a gift!
Arts and Culture
Baruch makes unique use of its location in the world's arts capital, organizing off-site arts programs and visits while bringing a vast array of talent to its campus. The College's Sidney Mishkin Gallery offers both one-person and group exhibitions and is regularly the site of special class sessions that encourage interdisciplinary education. The Baruch Performing Arts Center provides a gateway for students and the local community to experience first-rate performing arts activities that reflect diverse communities and intrigue and captivate audiences of all types. Baruch provides a residency for the Alexander String Quartet. The Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, Milt Hinton Jazz Perspectives Concert Series, and the Aaron Silberman Concert Series also showcase Baruch's commitment to the arts.
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Athletics
Baruch College maintains and continues to develop its NCAA Division III athletic program. Baruch Athletics programs provide student-athletes an opportunity to compete in an intercollegiate athletic program as part of their academic experience. Baruch student athletes exhibit integrity and scholarship at the highest level and consistently compete for conference championships and opportunities to contend for the NCAA and ECAC championships. Baruch Colleges Athletics and Recreation Center (ARC) is located in the College's award winning William and Anita Newman Vertical Campus building. It offers recreational and intramural sports in order to create an educational environment, designed to ensure the widest range of opportunities for a multitude of abilities and interests.
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Services for Students with Disabilities
Baruch College is committed to making individuals with disabilities full participants in its programs, services and activities. The Office of Services for Students with Disabilities provides a range of services for persons with disabilities including academic support services, advocacy, career development and assistive technologies. The Computer Center for Visually Impaired People also offers a range of courses in the area of assistive technologies for persons with visual impairment using state of the art software and hardware tools.
