Your contributions to The Baruch College Fund are yielding positive results. From faculty support and development to student scholarships and activities, gifts to Baruch have made a noticeable impact. For example, alumni donations have made possible:
- The hiring of more than 100 new professors in the past three years
- The participation of almost 300 professors, both full- and part-time, in master teacher seminars, learning outcomes assessment conferences, and teaching conferences.
- 12 endowed academic chairs over the past few years
- $1 million in student scholarships and graduate assistantships
- Ongoing funding for the Starr Career Development Center, student health, and extracurricular activities ranging from athletics to the student newspaper
- The implementation of DegreeWorks, an online system that allows students to audit their own progress toward graduation.
- The hiring of part-time employees to support more than 2,000 evening students, enrich student counseling, increase advisory services to international students, and expand co-curricular activities that develop student communication and leadership skills.
- Academic programs such as Ethics Week and Hispanic Heritage Month
- The creation of Baruch's first-ever Alumni Relations Office
- Extra-curricular programming such as
- the Sidney Harman Writer in Residence Program
- the Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Lecture Series on Equality and Justice in America at the School of Public Affairs
- the Mitsui Lunchtime Forum Series at the Weissman Center for International Business
- the Baruch College & Merrill Lynch IPO® Challenge entrepreneurship competitions
- the Burton Kossoff Business Leadership Lecture
- the Aaron Silberman Concert Series
Make an impact by giving to The Baruch College Fund today!
Making time to speak to students and creating career opportunities for students is another way that our alumni give back to Baruch. Thanks to alumni volunteers, a large number of students received additional guidance through Baruch's Executives On Campus program, a program funded by The Baruch College Fund:
- 134 students had one-to-one relationships with a mentor in their field
- 1,000 students gained career-related tips in their field of study
- 2,130 students heard volunteer industry experts speak either in their classroom or at a briefing
- 150 students practiced their networking and personal pitch with executive volunteers
