Thank you GSE alumni and friends for supporting the GSE's 2015 Education Fund!
The Graduate School of Education receives only part of its operating budget from the university, so annual giving is a crucial source of unrestricted funding. These flexible dollars allow the school to allocate financial resources where the need is greatest from year to year. For example, the Graduate School of Education Annual Fund supports internships for future education leaders and financial aid funding.Collectively, we can make a difference! Every gift, regardless of size, tells us that you support the school, our students, our faculty, and the work done here every day to improve education.
During the 2012 Summer Challenge, over one hundred Graduate School of Education alumni made gifts to the Education Fund to help increase access to graduate student financial aid!
However, the need is still great and this year we are hoping to reach 100 new gifts again before the end of our campaign year on August 31st. Please make a decision to support the Graduate School of Education today, so that we can continue to strengthen the school's ability to attract and train the next generation of leaders. Every gift you make helps us increase our support of Master’s Students for whom financial aid is otherwise scarce.
"If my gift could allow more educators to come and to learn and examine the broader context that informs our work, and then bring that experience back to their schools and communities, I think that would be an amazing investment. "
Jessie Gerson-Nieder, MA '12
"Financial aid has made a huge impact on International Comparative Education students because it allows them to do research, to collect data, to meet teachers and parents, and to connect with the incomparable faculty here at the Graduate School of Education." Rudy Rubio, BA '08, MA '09
"Graduate student aid is really important in drawing the best students to the Graduate School of Education, making sure they can concentrate on their studies while they are here, and ensuring they can enter careers where they can have the greatest impact." Diana Delatour Lopez, MA '08
"This is the best time to be investing in education. This is the best time to have our giving reflect our values as a society." Jessie Arora, MA '08
"Nobody goes into education to become a millionaire. People go into education because they care about making the lives of teachers and students better. Having student aid helps us attract the most talented people in the country to help solve some of the most intractable social issues that we're confronting today." Jason Weeby, MA '07
December 2012
Devotees of NPR know the moment well. You have just settled into the driver’s seat, and though you are barely awake yet, the prospect of listening to the news told elegantly and wittily already lifts your spirits as you reach for the radio dial. Disaster. It’s a pledge break. Fortunately, I don’t have to ruin your whole day by endlessly reminding you of the Education Fund and its role in helping our beloved school keep to its mission. Our students rely on our generosity in sustaining the Fund. It’s good to keep that in mind as we enter the season of giving.
A nice thing about supporting public radio is that you get a gift in response to your generosity. My favorite gifts are almost always books. Perhaps a good second best is a recommendation to read something you have not heard about. The great Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s most recent book, Human Chain, attests to his uncanny ability to evoke the deepest emotions through the plainest language and has quickly come to be regarded as among his very best. The audience for poetry has almost vanished. Wonderful poetry that is not in the least esoteric continues to be written but remains largely unread. Give yourself a wonderful gift. Read Human Chain or the other titles suggested by my colleagues:
Eamonn Callan
Human Chain: Poems, Seamus Heaney
Ransom, David Malouf
Ari Kelman
The Recording Angel, Evan Eisenberg
Claude Steele
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
Deborah Stipek
Anything by Isabel Allende
Jennifer Wolf
The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
Marcelo in the Real World, Francisco X. Stork
You can make your gift online at givingtostanford.stanford.edu or by calling Holly Materman
Associate Director, Alumni Relations & the Annual Fund
holly.materman@stanford.edu
(650) 723-0630