Gifts Totaling $725,000 from the Rauch Foundation Aim to Attract Talented Students and Post-Doctoral Fellows to TC
Foundation led by Trustee Nancy Douzinas supports TC's work to improve outcomes for children and families. Published: 6/19/2013
A Former Scholarship Recipient Gives Back
Debra Heinrich (M.A., M.Ed. '84) was already working as a nurse when a colleague told her about the Nursing Education program at Teachers College. Published: 5/20/2013
A Pioneer of Learning Innovation Supports New Technology at TC
To really appreciate the power of technology to enhance teaching and learning, you have to see it in action. Published: 5/20/2013
Abby M. O'Neill Gives $11 Million to Teachers College for Scholarship Support
Teachers College has received an extraordinary $11 million commitment from longtime Trustee Abby M. O'Neill. The gift reflects both Mrs. O'Neill's passion for supporting aspiring teachers who demonstrate a commitment to teaching in New York City and her goal of removing financial barriers to fulfilling that commitment. Published: 5/17/2013
Major General Irene Trowell-Harris, Ed.D., USAF, retired
How does one earn flight nurse wings, master's and doctoral degrees, and the rank of major general (two stars) in the U.S. Air Force, write a book (Sky High: No Goal Is Out of Your Reach), and win appointment by the White House to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs Centerfor Women Veterans? For Irene Trowell-Harris (Ed.M., Ed.D. '83), the answers included discipline, networking, mentoring and executive leadership. Published: 3/6/2013
The Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund
Announces a $10 Million Gift to Teachers College
The gift from TC's Board Vice Chair's establishes a new Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy at the College, seeds TC's capital projects and matches the Board's support for infrastructure. Published: 2/26/2013
Nutrition Conference Overview
Food was front and center at TC on Valentine's Day, as the College hosted a major conference on food research, policy and practice and announced its new Laurie M. Tisch for Food, Education & Policy. Published: 2/25/2013
Helping Students Shoulder the Load
JPMorgan Chase kicks off partnership with Teachers College by distributing backpacks to students in Harlem Published: 2/11/2013
Phil Armstrong is a Partner - at TC as well as on Wall Street
Goldman Sachs Gives is supporting the College's work with Covenant House Published: 1/15/2013
Creating a Space for Peace
"We can either kill each other, or sit down at a table and work out our problems," says TC Trustee Marla L. Schaefer (M.A. '03). "I vote for sitting at the table."
Marla recently gave a $575,000 gift to renovate just about everything at the International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (ICCCR), headed by Peter Coleman, Associate Professor of Psychology and Education. Her gift will create the Marla L. Schaefer Office Suite at the ICCCR. Published: 12/7/2012
Reading, Writing and Relief
The TC Reading and Writing Project works in schools across the city. Now it's helping many of them to get back on their feet after Hurricane Sandy Published: 11/12/2012
