Our bright and motivated students take full advantage of CCNY’s scholarship opportunities to earn other prestigious awards. Tuition assistance provided through The City College Fund supported 2005 graduate Lev Sviridov, City College’s first Rhodes Scholar since 1939. City College Fellow, Debbie Wolf, while maintaining a 3.9 GPA, is preparing for a future as an English professor. She has delivered academic papers at Yale University, and has spent a summer studying at England’s Cambridge University. The Stuyvesant-CCNY Scholarship Project is paying her tuition and provides her with a stipend to cover the cost of her text books and other expenses.

Shivanie Latchman, another Stuyvesant/CCNY Scholar, recently earned a three summer internship with the Jeanette K. Watson Fellowship Program; she was one of only 15 students chosen for the sought-after program. Gary Chan, recently won a $24,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency for research on how green roofs may improve water runoff problems in urban environments.

The Stuyvesant/CCNY Scholarship Project began only four short years ago through the generosity and determination of alumni from both schools. In its first year, it supported five students. Today, dozens of Stuyvesant seniors apply for the four year merit scholarship. The two-year-old Bronx Science/CCNY Scholarship also requires students to maintain an excellent GPA. It’s scholars have risen to the challenge, earning Mellon Mays Fellowships, Colin Powell Fellowships, and study-abroad opportunities while playing active roles in student government and other on-campus activities.

Monetary awards provided by our alumni are more necessary now than ever, since CCNY’s tuition is the highest it has ever been: $4,000 a year, exclusive of the rising cost of textbooks. Current students, many of whom come from families earning less than $30,000 a year, already grapple with the high cost of living in New York City. This is especially the case with students who have to help support their parents and siblings, or children of their own.

Of course, city and state financial aid does help, but not all who apply can benefit, and those who can often need more coverage. The Fund provides assistance that students often can’t get anywhere else. We know how much students depend on us, and we take this responsibility very seriously. We need support from our alumni to help keep these scholarships available for the many deserving students who benefit from them. For more information about any of our scholarships, and how you can help, please contact Elena Sturman, the Executive Director of The City College Fund, at 212-650-6529.

BRONX SCIENCE-CCNY PROJECT

The Bronx Science-CCNY Scholarship Project welcomed its first project scholars to CCNY in the Fall of 2005, and new applications are arriving constantly. These applications are reviewed through a rigorous selection process. Certainly
BROOKLYN TECH-CCNY PROJECT

The first class of the Brooklyn Tech-CCNY Scholarship Project began their studies at City College in the fall of 2007. Like CCNY's partnerships with Stuyvesant High School and The Bronx High School of Science, its partnership with Brooklyn

Endowed Lecture Series

A gift to endow a lecture series can greatly add to the life of the College, reaching out to students, faculty, and the community at large. One such endowed series is the annual Louis Levine - Gabriella de Beer Lecture in Genetics.

Gabriella de Beer retired as a Professor of Spanish at the City College of New York, and is the author of Contemporary Mexican Women Writers: Five Voices. She established the lecture series in memory of her husband, Professor Louis Levine, a City College alumnus who taught in the Department of Biology and The Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, participated in bi-national research studies in Mexico, was Visiting Professor at the Technion (the Israel Institute of Technology) in Israel, and in later years served as a consultant and expert witness in criminal cases involving DNA evidence. The aim of these annual lectures is to perpetuate Professor Levine’s lifelong interest in the ever-expanding field of genetics.

The lectures take place in The Great Hall of Shepard Hall at The City College of New York, with a reception following. Dr. Francisco J. Ayala, a noted evolutionary biologist and geneticist, delivered the inaugural lecture, entitled Design without Designer: Darwin’s Most Significant Discovery, in the spring of 2008. (To be included on the mailing list for lecture announcements and invitations, please click here.)


An endowed lecture series is a wonderful way to honor the memory of someone, to highlight a particular area of study, or simply to enrich the intellectual or creative offerings of The City College of New York for all of its constituents: alumni, friends, faculty, and, of course, current students. For further information, please call Elena Sturman at (212) 650-6529.

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