Our Donors

Thank you to the alumni and friends who make these scholarships possible.

Adirondack Trust Company

Adirondack Trust Company

The Adirondack Trust Company Scholarship With gratitude to Charles Wait, Jr. and The Adirondack Trust Company. The Adirondack Trust Company Scholarship was established by the Adirondack Trust Company to provide scholarships for students residing in New York’s Capital...

Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust

Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust

Alfred Z. Solomon Scholarship With gratitude to Victoria Garlanda and Harry Snyder, trustees of the Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust. The Alfred Z. Solomon Scholarship assists students who are community college graduates residing in Saratoga County with...

A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'Connor Foundation

A. Lindsay and Olive B. O'Connor Foundation

A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation With gratitude to Donald Bishop, Executive Director of the O’Connor Foundation. The O’Connor Foundation Scholarship was established by the A. Lindsay and Olive B. O’Connor Foundation to assist Empire State College students...

Ann '86 and Bruce Turner

Ann '86 and Bruce Turner

After a more than 45-year career serving as an executive in a variety of industries, alumna Ann Turner ‘86 retired in 2023 from her role as a senior consultant with Pivotal Advisors in Minnesota. Previously, Ann worked as a senior development officer at Keuka College...

Anonymous Donor

Anonymous Donor

Western New York Part-Time Student Success The fund has been established by an anonymous donor to supplement funding for students residing in Western New York who find the demands of their job along with full-time study unworkable, to enable them to move to part-time...

Brian and Diane Pine

Brian and Diane Pine

Brian Pine is a member of the class of 2005 with an undergraduate degree in Business Management and Economics. Brian retired in 2012 as Director of Facilities Operations at SUNY New Paltz after 30 years in NYS public facilities, and returned to New Paltz in 2013 to...

Charles R. Wood Foundation

Charles R. Wood Foundation

The Charles R. Wood Foundation Front Line Healthcare Worker Fund scholarship will be awarded to students residing in the Capital Region and North Country enrolled in undergraduate or graduate programs in Nursing or Allied Health, with demonstrated financial need....

Claudia Shacter-deChabert

Claudia Shacter-deChabert

Rosa Parks Scholarship The Rosa Parks Scholarship was established by alumna Claudia Shacter-deChabert to provide funds for a student in the Labor Graduate Program who shares the activist spirit of Ms. Rosa Parks. The scholarship is intended to help further the...

Conrad and Virginia Klee Foundation

Conrad and Virginia Klee Foundation

Conrad and Virginia Klee Foundation Scholarship Established by the Conrad and Virginia Klee Foundation, the scholarship is awarded to assist students living in the City of Binghamton or the greater Broome County area. Nearly 50 years after Conrad Klee’s death, those...

Crystal Scriber (in memory of)

Crystal Scriber (in memory of)

Crystal Scriber Scholarship With gratitude to Reed Coughlan, on behalf of Crystal’s friends and colleagues. Professor Scriber was a mentor and full professor at the Utica Unit of Empire State College. Her main areas of educational interest were in the fine arts and...

David and Joy Mazzetti

David and Joy Mazzetti

Mazzetti Family Scholarship The Mazzetti Family Scholarship was established in 2015 through the generosity of David ’10 and Joy Mazzetti. The scholarship is available to undergraduate or graduate students with demonstrated financial need. Preference is given to...

David and Susan Theobald and Davin Healthcare

David and Susan Theobald and Davin Healthcare

Davin Healthcare Nursing Scholarship and Davin Healthcare Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship The Davin Healthcare Scholarship and Davin Healthcare Nursing and Allied Health Scholarship were established to support students pursuing a career in nursing or allied...

David Yamada

David Yamada

David Yamada ’99 Labor Relations Scholarship The David Yamada Labor Relations Scholarship was established for a deserving student with financial need in the graduate Labor and Policy Studies Program. David C. Yamada is a Professor of Law and founding Director of the...

Doris Goldberg

Doris Goldberg

Joseph Goldberg Scholarship The Joseph Goldberg Memorial Scholarship is intended to assist students in the arts, helping professions, social theory or some combination of those areas who have made or show the potential to make significant, socially useful...

Dr. John M. Beckem II

Dr. John M. Beckem II

Dr. John M. Beckem II Scholarship Dr. John M. Beckem II is an Empire State College faculty member in Finance and Management Studies. Recipients of the Beckem Scholarship should demonstrate an interest in technology, and how current or future technologies may be used...

Dr. Kesiah Scully and Dr. David Seres

Dr. Kesiah Scully and Dr. David Seres

The Coxen-Ahr Memorial Scholarship The Coxen-Ahr Memorial Scholarship has been created to support deserving undergraduate students enrolled in the Business, Management and Economics program at SUNY Empire State College’s Metropolitan New York Center. The scholarship...

Dr. Marian Conway

Dr. Marian Conway

Marian is a two-time graduate of the college, receiving an undergraduate degree in 2001 and a graduate degree in Liberal Studies in 2004. She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in Public Policy and Administration, Nonprofit Management and Leadership from Walden...

Dr. Patricia Brozinsky

Dr. Patricia Brozinsky

The Drs. James Gibson and Patricia Brozinsky Endowed Graduate Scholarship “And remember, the truth that once was spoken, to love another person is to see the face of God.” ~ Les Miserables The Drs. James Aloysius Gibson and Patricia Brozinsky Endowed Scholarship was...

Dyson Foundation

Dyson Foundation

Dyson Foundation Scholarship in Nursing With gratitude to Robert Dyson, Executive Director of the Dyson Foundation. The Dyson Foundation is committed to the Mid-Hudson Valley and to improving and enhancing the quality of life in the region for all of its residents,...

Family, friends and former colleagues of George P. Pilkey

Family, friends and former colleagues of George P. Pilkey

George P. Pilkey, teacher, mentor, counselor, devoted father and grandfather, Adirondack 46er, and nature lover died on February 11, 2019 doing what he loved most, hiking and communing with nature. George worked for many years at Empire State College as a professor...

Family, friends and former colleagues of Richard L. Brodsky

Family, friends and former colleagues of Richard L. Brodsky

The Richard L. Brodsky Scholarship for Public Service was established to honor Brodsky’s legacy as a committed public servant. Brodsky, a 14-term New York State assemblyman from Westchester, chaired the Environmental Conservation, Corporations and Authorities, and...

Family of Harriet Ann and Arthur Simon

Family of Harriet Ann and Arthur Simon

Harriet Ann Simon and Arthur Simon were both the first in their respective families to attend college. They strongly believed that education was a major factor to a brighter future. Harriet attended high school in Baltimore, MD as an honor student, then entered...

Federation Board of Governors in honor of Jeanne Brockmann

Federation Board of Governors in honor of Jeanne Brockmann

Jeanne Brockmann Scholarship With gratitude to the Alumni/Student Federation Board of Governors. Dr. Jeanne Brockmann served SUNY Empire State College since its inception. She was a devoted colleague and friend to administrators, faculty, students and alumni. When a...

Federation Board of Governors in honor of Marjorie Meinhardt

Federation Board of Governors in honor of Marjorie Meinhardt

Marjorie Meinhardt ’77 Scholarship The Meinhardt Scholarship was established by the Alumni/Student Federation to honor Marjorie Meinhardt for her assistance to students and alumni when she served as Director of Alumni Affairs at Empire State College. Ms. Meinhardt...

Fred and Floy Willmott Foundation

Fred and Floy Willmott Foundation

Fred and Floy Willmott Foundation Scholarship in Nursing With gratitude to Luther Miller, Executive Director of the Fred and Floy Willmott Foundation. The Fred and Floy Willmott Foundation Scholarship was established by the Fred and Floy Willmott Foundation to...

Friends and Family of E. Lester Levine

Friends and Family of E. Lester Levine

E. Lester Levine Memorial Scholarship E. Lester Levine was a longtime mentor at the Niagara Frontier Center who passed away suddenly in 1991. Said his brother Maurice Edwards of Lester, “This should suffice to illustrate one aspect of Lester’s personality, namely,...

Friends, Family, Colleagues and Former Students of Jane Shipton

Friends, Family, Colleagues and Former Students of Jane Shipton

Jane Shipton Scholarship With gratitude to Ingrid McCauley, a dear friend of Jane Shipton. The Jane Shipton Endowed Memorial Scholarship was created to honor the life and work of Jane Shipton, a beloved mentor and esteemed faculty member at the Long Island Center of...

Friends of Carol Burdick and Frank Trice

Friends of Carol Burdick and Frank Trice

The Carol Burdick/Frank Trice Book Scholarship was created by the Alfred Unit of Empire State College to help students with limited funds purchase textbooks. Carol Burdick, known to most as “CB”, was a tutor for Empire State College’s Alfred Unit from the early...

Friends of Dr. Bridget Nettleton

Friends of Dr. Bridget Nettleton

The Dr. Bridget Nettleton Memorial Healthcare Scholarship was established by alumni David ’13, ‘17 and Susan ‘16 Theobald, in tribute to Dr. Nettleton’s impact on themselves, their company Davin Healthcare, and the greater field of Nursing. David Theobald stated, “My...

Friends of Empire State University

Friends of Empire State University

The Fund for Empire State University Scholarship The Fund for Empire State University Scholarship was funded through gifts to the SUNY Empire Foundation.