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 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 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...

Althea E. Luehrsen Scholarship Established through the generosity of alumna Althea Luehrsen ’02,’10. A lifelong resident of Western New York, Althea Luehrsen is the proud mother of two adult children Michael and Jenna, who are successful professionals in their...

Torres-Wilczewski Scholarship Established by former faculty member Dr. Anibal Torres and his wife Isabelle Wilczewski, the Torres-Wilczewski Scholarship is awarded to students in Central New York with a preference given to students of ethnic or racial minorities or...

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...

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...

Latino Heritage Scholarship The Latino Heritage Scholarship was established by an anonymous donor to support students in Metropolitan New York City who trace their Hispanic/Latino heritage to Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, Central American or...

Black Male Initiative Scholarship In 2009, the Black Male Initiative was formed at Empire State College’s Metropolitan Center, based in New York City, to address a major concern – reduced retention rates among black male students. Ensuring students re-enroll from...

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...

Szenczy Impact Scholarship The Szenczy Impact Scholarship was established by alumna Catherine Szenczy ’87. After a successful 40-year career in Healthcare Information Technology, Catherine is pursuing her passion for helping women build a better life for themselves...

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....

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 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 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...

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...

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 ’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...

Dianne White is a faculty member in the Empire State College School of Nursing. She and hr husband Daniel established the scholarship in memory of Dan’s father Gene White.

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...

Fullard/Mills Scholarship for African-American Women The Fullard/Mills Scholarship for African-American Women, established in 2014, is awarded to female, African-American (including students who identify as black, African-American and Afro-Caribbean), undergraduate...

David A. Fullard Opportunity Scholarship In elementary and high schools, I never fully understood the sacrifices my mother, aunt and grandmother made to provide the emotional and financial support necessary for me to have a Catholic school education. Based on the...

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...

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...

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. Nan M. DiBello is a retired Empire State College faculty member in the Public Affairs area of study, and served as the Dean of the Niagara Frontier region from 2003 to 2016.

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...

Dunkirk-Fredonia American Association of University Women (AAUW) Scholarship With gratitude to Joyce Haines, of the former Dunkirk-Fredonia AAUW branch. Originally established in 1992 by the Dunkirk-Fredonia branch of the American Association of University Women,...

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,...

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...