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Creative Ways to Give

Many of us aspire to reach a point of financial abundance in our lives--a time when we might turn our thoughts outward to pay tribute to those who helped us reach this pinnacle. We wait to give to these organizations, hoping that time will build a bigger gift that will have more of an impact.

In reality, modest gifts make a noticeable difference in the day-to-day happenings within the school. A few hundred dollars can cover the expenses for a student to attend a conference, or for a faculty member to purchase cameras for a multimedia class. Faculty and staff members seek support for a variety of projects that fall into four categories:

• Student Access and Support 

• Cross Connections

• Faculty Excellence

• Building Futures


Just as we educate our students to pull together disparate bits of data into a comprehensive knowledge of information, we seek an expansive network of individual donors to provide a solid foundation for our future as a leading iSchool.  

Find out how you can help us achieve our immediate and long-term goals. Contact Barbara Settel at basettel@syr.edu or 315-443-5604, or simply give online now.

 

Katherine Katchmar Learning Center


021 and 013 Hinds Hall
Donor: Estelle Wilhelm ’38, ’39 

Estelle Wilhelm’s $1 million donation is in honor of Katherine Katchmar, a woman who greatly believes in education and would have been honored to help provide a place for students to go to expand their minds.“She was a great believer in education,” Wilhelm says. “With her, it was always ‘study, study, study.’”

Today, this premier 2,000-square-foot classroom and computer lab space is used by iSchool students in all programs who work independently or collaboratively on group projects at all hours of the day and night.

Milton and Roselie Brenner Staff Office


343G Hinds Hall
Donors: Paul and Mary Brenner 

“My parents were always very supportive of the importance of education and worked hard to pay for all four of us kids to attend college. I thought it fitting that they be honored in an institution of higher education that I feel passionately about and will value and use the funding wisely.”
     Paul Brenner, Assistant Dean for Advancement
     School of Information Studies