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Architecture, Art, and Planning

Top-ranked education in art, design, and public service

AAP integrates the humanities, the arts, and the social sciences with design practice, offering students a top-ranked education that is rooted in theory and practice. Investing in AAP ensures that future generations of students learn to design livable cities and environmentally sustainable buildings, create meaningful and original art, and become catalysts for social justice. All gifts are welcome. Named giving opportunities are listed below.

Additional giving opportunities

To start a conversation about one of these opportunities, contact:
Michael Moyer
mmm328@cornell.edu or 607-255-2410

Selected giving opportunities

Ezra Cornell Graduate Fellowship

$1,000,000

Support the faculty of tomorrow

This named fellowship honors Ezra Cornell's vision, determination, and financial commitment that "would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study." Fellowships may be designated to assist students in a field of study of your choice and will provide support to future generations of graduate students. You may choose to keep the name of the fellowship, add your own name, or replace the name with another as a way to honor a family member, friend, or teacher.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Andrew Dickson White Graduate Fellowship

$750,000

Honoring the past and supporting the scholars of today and tomorrow

This endowed fellowship honoring Andrew Dickson White, Cornell's first president, may be designated to assist students in a field of study of your choice.

Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholarship

$500,000

Help undergraduate researchers work with exceptional faculty

Honoring Cornell's 10th president, Hunter R. Rawlings, this highly competitive program aims to bring the nation's most academically gifted students to Cornell. This program acknowledges his exceptional leadership of the university and his commitment to undergraduate education. Open to undergraduate students across all academic disciplines, the program offers each student an opportunity to work with a faculty mentor. Together they design and plan an individualized program of faculty-directed research. Rawlings Presidential Research Scholars may present their work at a variety of academic and social events. Your gift can help fund a research-support account that students may use for wages, research-related travel, limited supplies, and summer research expenses. In addition, students with need receive financial support for tuition and to reduce their student loans.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Cornell Tradition Fellowship

$125,000

Support students who make a difference on campus and in the community

"You are here to build a university," said President Andrew Dickson White to the first class of Cornellians in 1865. White and Ezra Cornell felt that labor was an essential element to completing an otherwise purely academic program. In exchange for their labor, the university forgave part of the cost of education for those students who worked. The Cornell Tradition continues the vision of rewarding students who work and serve their communities while obtaining an undergraduate degree. The Cornell Tradition is an alumni-endowed fellowship program that recognizes and rewards outstanding students dedicated to work, service, and scholarship. The program awards approximately 600 fellowships each year to Cornell undergraduates who have significant work experience, make meaningful contributions to campus and/or community service, and maintain a high level of academic achievement.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Named Scholarship

$100,000 and up

Keep Cornell within reach for deserving students

A new challenge match makes it possible for you to endow and name a scholarship with a $75,000 gift. Through the 3:1 match, challenge funds provide an additional dollar for every $3 you give. Establishing a named scholarship increases access for students to a Cornell education, regardless of their ability to pay. You can choose to establish a fund in your name, or honor a family member, friend, or mentor. Your scholarship fund is an investment in the future of individual recipients and in the lives they touch.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Term Undergraduate Scholarship

$10,000

Sponsor a student for one year

You can establish a scholarship to help one student for one year with a gift of $7,500. Because of a generous challenge match, your gift will be matched on a 3:1 basis, resulting in a $10,000 gift to establish a term scholarship. All term scholarship donors will receive a profile of their student recipient for one year and be invited to the annual scholarship reception for students and their benefactors. Company matching gifts are included. Planned gifts are not eligible.

For more info, contact
Laura Toy
607-255-3950
llt1@cornell.edu

Paul Milstein Hall

All sizes

Building on a Vision for AAP

Make an online gift to Paul Milstein Hall

The AAP community's new facility, which will increase workspace and accessibility, promises to provide more than square footage. Designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Paul Milstein Hall weaves its definitively contemporary architecture through the college's historic buildings, creating a dynamic landscape and a vibrant central meeting place that lends itself to innovative collaboration.

Click here to find out more.

Cornell Annual Fund for Architecture, Art, and Planning

All sizes

Keep AAP on the cutting edge

Make an online gift to Cornell Annual Fund for Architecture, Art, and Planning

Gifts of all sizes matter year after year to the faculty and students of AAP. The Cornell Annual Fund for Architecture, Art, and Planning offers leaders the resources to respond to immediate and unforeseen needs, such as sending students to a design competition, providing emergency financial assistance to a student in sudden need, or bringing in a guest speaker. Recent gifts have helped support the AAP Center in New York City, a new lecture series that brings world-class practitioners to campus, and an interdisciplinary course in "Green Cities" for architecture and planning students. Your annual gifts enrich the lives of students and faculty in the AAP community in ways that would not be possible otherwise.

For more info, contact
Michael Moyer
607-255-2410
mmm328@cornell.edu

Gift guide | Colleges and Units | Architecture, Art, and Planning

Architecture, Art, and Planning

Top-ranked education in art, design, and public service

Selected giving opportunities