Fall 2008 Appeal

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Pitzer’s achievements and successes of the past year are laudable and historic. To name just a few, the 2009 USNews and World Report ranked Pitzer in the top 50 of liberal arts schools and colleges, and ranked it in the top three as an “Up and Coming” national liberal arts college to watch. Since 2002, Pitzer has been awarded the most Fulbright fellowships per capita than any college in the nation, as well as numerous other scholarship and fellowship awards. Pitzer also received Gold LEED certification for Phase I of the recently completed Residence Life Project.

Even within the context of the uncertainty of our economic climate and the polarization of national politics, it is the mission of Pitzer College that continues to reverberate through the commotion. Since its founding in 1963 Pitzer has provided grounding and guidance to students and alumni, and in working through them has ultimately reached into the world and changed it for the better.

Pitzer College produces engaged, socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.

In order for Pitzer College to continue as a leader in higher education and as an example to the world, we need your ongoing help and assistance to provide students the opportunity to study and serve, both on campus and throughout the world, making connections between what they study and how to apply it in the world.

With your support Pitzer continues to grow and thrive. In its inaugural year, the Center for Social Inquiry provides a focus on global Issues in public health and foods. Students serve organically grown food from our own gardens in the Grove House kitchen and student-run Shakedown Café. Students volunteer at an orphanage in Botswana for children whose parents have been lost to HIV/AIDS. Students study homelessness through Pitzer’s Center for California Cultural and Social Issues, volunteer at the House of Ruth Women’s shelter in Claremont and spend their Fall Break volunteering in hurricane relief efforts in Galveston, Texas. The connection between knowing and doing is sometimes frighteningly disconnected in our society. However, at Pitzer students not only make the connection, they close the gap through leading by example.

Pitzer’s continuing success and student engagement is truly remarkable. Now more than ever our society needs well-educated citizens with the compassion and skills necessary to help solve problems at home and abroad. We need your help to continue the Pitzer tradition. You are an important stakeholder in Pitzer’s future. Your contribution to the 2008-2009 Annual Fund is a vote of confidence in the Pitzer College mission.

Support the Annual Fund today!