Fund for Potsdam

The Fund for Potsdam – Annual Gifts That Truly Enable the College and Our Students

The Fund for Potsdam is all gifts supporting an area of the College’s greatest needs. Your gift to an important part of Potsdam will help power the College, affording needed flexibility on behalf of our students.

You can decide. What do you think SUNY Potsdam students and faculty need most?

	The 2011-2012 Student Gift Emerging Leaders, a student group focused on leadership and service, leads this effort. The student gift was voted by the students again this year to go to the College’s greatest needs! Last year, you helped the student body and Emerging Leaders present a gift for the College’s greatest needs $18,000!
	The Crane School of Music Dean Michael Sitton has completed a full year and is into his second year and continues to make wonderful plans for Crane that honor that well-known “tradition of innovation.” He will use your gifts for student travel for conferences, performances, auditions; ensemble materials; classroom scores; updates to classroom equipment and keyboard labs; and national visibility for faculty and students, as well as plan for Crane's 125th Anniversary this year. Read a welcome message from Dean Sitton.
	The School of Arts & Sciences Interim Dean Steve Marqusee is focused on quality depth and breadth of his students’ experiences. His plans for applying your gifts include faculty-student research, equipment in support of and student travel to present that research, and speakers on chosen academic topics of interest to students. Explore more about Arts & Sciences.
	The School of Education & Professional Studies Interim Dean Peter Brouwer upholds the traditions represented by the founding school of the College. Your gifts will further his plans to support students and outreach efforts through need-based scholarships, student-faculty research, student travel to present that research, academic competitions, the Sheard Literacy Center, and the Center for Excellence in Math & Science Education. Learn more about this School.
	Libraries Director of Libraries Jenica Rogers says, “Students’ research starts in the libraries — why shouldn’t it end there, too?” So she is planning to use your gifts toward infrastructure for student-research displays in both libraries. Also your gifts will support a complete renovation of the Crumb lobby; and equipment and interns for the archives, as the College Archivist captures and preserves the College’s history in preparation for celebrations of the College’s 2016 bicentennial. A photographic history of the College will be published soon! (And even if you can’t be here, you can explore the Libraries online.)
	Student Affairs Dean of Student Affairs Chip Morris knows that most of your best memories from College spring from the activities that Student Affairs makes possible. Your gifts will support the fall Welcome Weekend, including the Carnival; Leadership Conference speakers and activities; Winter Fest, including events and performances; and late-night programming for students. Read more about all that Student Affairs offers for today’s students.
	Athletics (Bear Pride Club) Athletics Director Jim Zalacca shares news of the women’s soccer team receiving a 2010 National Soccer Coaches Association of America Team Ethics Gold Award, one of six teams in the nation, for drawing no red or yellow cards during the season! Your gifts will help Bear pride live on as you support important initiatives such as awards for senior athletes; renovating and updating facilities; Bears Are Back in Town Reunion Weekend; Bear Pride Nights; and alumni receptions at athletic events. Check anytime to find all the teams’ results!