During the current economic crisis, the Annual Fund of The Graduate Center will be used to provide direct assistance to doctoral students. These outstanding young scholars are especially vulnerable because financial strains result in an increase in educational costs, a decrease in the amount of financial aid available, and fewer employment opportunities both within and beyond academe. Without additional support, many could be forced to interrupt or abandon their studies altogether. At this time, a gift to the Annual Fund can have a profound impact on the lives of students.

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Please consider a gift to the Annual Fund to help support our students.

If you are among our leadership donors, making a gift of $1,000 or more to the Annual Fund, you will be recognized as a member of the President's Alliance. Your gift, and your involvement with the Graduate Center, will be acknowledged in a number of ways throughout the year. Because you are a leader of the community, your gift as a vote of confidence in the Graduate Center will inspire others to take notice and to give as generously as they can. Read more about the President's Alliance>

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Gifts to the Graduate Center’s music program support scholarship, research and a wealth of free public performances—recitals, concerts, and special presentations of music from around the world—as well as lectures and panel discussions. Ranked among the nation’s top ten, the music program boasts a stellar faculty, including Pulitzer Prize-winning composers and celebrated concert artists. It grants Ph.D. degrees in musicology and doctor of musical arts (DMA) degrees in performance and composition. Its popular Music in Midtown series of free hour-long midday chamber-music concerts features outstanding professional musicians from the program’s faculty and student body performing at the Graduate Center’s Baisley Powell Elebash Recital Hall. This elegant venue also boasts a rich schedule of performances by guest artists, student groups and the music’s program’s resident ensemble. Added to the schedule in the fall of 2009 is the music program’s new, affordably-priced program of music and discussion — Elebash Presents Concerts and Conversations — bringing together internationally renowned musicians, composers, critics and scholars for six provocative evenings of performance and talk each year.

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Friends of the Library facilitate the mission of the Mina Rees Library by providing funding for print and electronic acquisitions, as well as for the preservation and maintenance of the library's holdings, facilities, and equipment. As a patron, you will receive invitations to events sponsored by the Friends of the Library and your gift will strengthen our collections, preserve them for future generations, and ensure that the Mina Rees Library offers the most advanced resources to students and faculty.

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The James Gallery, a museum-quality space on the main floor of the Graduate Center with windows fronting Fifth Avenue, annually presents five or six exhibitions of artworks in all media. The exhibitions, lectures, and other activities of the James Gallery encompass a spectrum of scholarly interests, offer doctoral students the opportunity to gain valuable curatorial experience, and contribute to the cultural life of New York.

Your gift as a member of the Gallery Associates entitles you to an array of benefits including invitations to opening receptions and private gallery talks. Gallery Associates' gifts help support special exhibitions that enhance the teaching mission of the gallery and enrich the City's cultural landscape.

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Your gift may be directed to many special purposes such as: scholarships that provide access to graduate education for students of modest means; salary enhancements for the most talented faculty; funds for faculty and student research and travel; support for students or faculty in a particular discipline, program, center, or institute; funding for distinguished visiting professorships; support for programs designed to serve New York City; and underwriting support for lectures, conferences, concerts, theater, and other public programs.

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If you are interested in learning more about the special needs of the Graduate Center and about how you can help, please contact the Office of Institutional Advancement.