Lehman College
Foundation
250 Bedford Park Blvd W.
Shuster Hall 318
Bronx, New York 10468
Phone:
718-960-8766
Fax:
718-960-8046
Email:
lehman.foundation
@lehman.cuny.edu
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The Foundation has a variety of giving programs - annual, capital/endowed and deferred - that can be tailored to individual donors' requirements. Both donor families and Lehman College can benefit from charitable lead and charitable remainder trusts, for example. To find out more, click here.
LEHMAN COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP People who work at Lehman College perform a wide range of tasks with the single purpose of helping students succeed and complete their education. The Lehman College Foundation recently established the LEHMAN COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP to give the members of the College community, alumni and other friends an opportunity to help our students in an additional way: by contributing to an endowed scholarship fund. The scholarship is a single, endowed fund, and after it has reached the minimum threshold of $10,000, a portion of the earnings will be awarded. Whether your primary role is to teach, counsel, advise, administer financial aid programs, conduct research or answer telephones, your gift to the LEHMAN COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP fund will help ease the financial burden on selected deserving students. Anyone making a contribution to the LEHMAN COLLEGE COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIP may use it as an opportunity to honor or memorialize a friend or family member.
Contributions To The Lehman College Community Scholarship Recognize These IndividualsRobert Johnson |
AN EVENING OF CELEBRATION SCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 27th AT NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENCOLLEGE ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO BE HIGHLIGHTEDPROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS Join us on Thursday, October 27, 2005, at the New York Botanical Garden when the Lehman College Foundation sponsors a Gala dinner dance to raise funds for student scholarships. The event, with cocktails at 7:00 p.m. and dinner and dancing at 8:00 p.m., will feature the music of Peter Duchin & the Peter Duchin Orchestra. Pei-Sze Cheng, Reporter for WNBC-TV, will serve as Master of Ceremonies. |
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 Ricardo R. Fernández |
The event, in the beautiful Garden Terrace room, will highlight the achievements of Lehman College and raise much-needed funds for scholarships. Ricardo R. Fernández will be recognized for his fifteen years of leadership as President, the longest tenure of a president in the senior colleges of the CUNY system. Crain’s New York Business has acknowledged him as one of New York City’s top 100 minority business leaders. | ||
“We have succeeded admirably in our mission of preparing men and women from the Bronx and surrounding communities for worthwhile careers,” says Ricardo Fernández. “In many fields Lehman alumni have made an extraordinary difference.” Lehman students, like so many from the City University of New York historically, often strive to achieve the American Dream by being the first in their family to attend college. Dr. Fernández noted, “State assisted institutions like Lehman must look beyond Albany and Washington to underwrite education. Tuition today is three times what it was when I became president in 1990. Most of our students need financial assistance to complete their education.” Benefit Chairs and Committee members are comprised
of national, regional and local philanthropists, educators, and community,
business and elected leaders along with Lehman College faculty, retirees
and alumni. To date, they include Ann Bronfman, Anna Carbonell, Brooke
Duchin, Aramina Ferrer, Michael Gill, David Gonzales, Elias Karmon,
George Jacobs, Louis Laguardia, Serafin Mariel, Sarah Morgenthau,
Sorosh Roshan, Ruth Westheimer and Rosanne Wille. Honorary Chairs
include CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, Representative
Elliot Engel, Representative Joseph Crowley, Bronx Borough President
Adolfo Carrion and performer Willie Colon. Lincoln Center Reception Establishes
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A Very Good Year The Lehman College Foundation has reached our one half million dollar goal in 2004 thanks to our alumni, friends and the Lehman College Community. Our Title V match was a key to our success. March 11, 2004 – Lehman Honors Reception held at Lehman Brothers. Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers hosted the Lehman Honors Reception at Lehman Brothers….more May 22 and May 23, 2004 – Shirin Ebadi's Contributions to World Peace are celebrated. The Lehman College Foundation and the International Health Awareness Network (IHAN) honored 2003 Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi….more October 13, 2004 – An Evening
with Billy Collins. The Lehman College Community Scholarship:
Samina Shahidi McDonald, a former student of
Billy Collins, now a graduate student and adjunct faculty member,
spoke about Billy’s influence on her life as a writer. Read
her moving tribute here. Professor Collins, who was Poet Laureate of
the U.S. from 2001 to 2003
Remarks by Samina Shahidi Mcdonald at "An Evening with Billy Collins" Want to be invited to future Lehman Foundation
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Celebrities from the world of music and theatre joined with faculty,
students and alumni of Lehman College to honor Distinguished Professor
of Music John Corigliano at a reception May 10 in the Kaplan Penthouse
at Lincoln Center. The event, which established the Corigliano Music
Scholarships at Lehman College, featured memorable performances of
some of the composer's work by Jeffrey Multer, The Elements Quartet,
Judy Kaye and Mitchell Cirker, Jeffrey Ziegler, and the Juilliard
Pianists and Singers. Alumnus Michael Bacon and his brother, Kevin—better
known as the Bacon Brothers—also performed one of Michael's
new songs, which they recently recorded. Speaking about Professor
Corigliano's impact as a teacher and composer were President Ricardo
R. Fernández, famed conductor Leonard Slatkin, fellow composer
Mark Adamo, student Eslie Bagnol and other friends, alumni and faculty
members. 
John
Hilliard was Chairperson of the benefit, which generated over $20,000 for The
Billy Collins Scholarship at Lehman College. This endowed scholarship will
support an outstanding student who has financial needs.
Special
guest, Frank McCourt, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angela’s
Ashes, spoke with light-hearted envy about how easily Billy Collins
seems to produce his work. McCourt wryly noted that Billy used
the things closest to him (his dog, the kitchen table, his wife)
as inspiration, and evoked both thought and laughter in the process. 
Poet
Samuel Menashe was another guest. He had recently won the “Neglected
Masters Award” from The Poetry Foundation, at its first
Pegasus Awards ceremony in Chicago. Billy Collins received the
Foundation’s “Mark Twain Poetry Award” for humor.
and
is current Poet Laureate of New York State, confirmed Mr. McCourt's
words when he addressed the group. He spoke of the long march
from “lecturer” to CUNY Distinguished Professor of
English in his 35 years at Lehman College , mentioning that President
Fernández took away his freshman composition classes only
after he was on the cover of Time Magazine. If that hadn't happened,
he said, he would probably be correcting papers while at the podium
talking to us. 
Fortunately,
he had been spared, and so, as promised by Frank McCourt, we were
treated to a reading of some of Billy Collins' humorous -- and
thought-provoking -- poems.
Lehman College is home to more than 10,000 students, seven Distinguished Professors, the CUNY Honors College at Lehman, and the High School of American Studies at Lehman College. It is the first CUNY college to be accredited by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the second to offer a Bachelor of Business Administration program, and the third in the ranking of federal grants and awards received. In 2002 Lehman was named an "Institution of Excellence in the First College Years." "Having been at Lehman College since its inception
I have witnessed many radical changes in the life of the College...
But one thing that has remained constant is its mission to provide
a quality higher education to the varied population of New York
City. " HERBERT H. LEHMAN |
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