Endowed Funds and Scholarships

• John A. McCarthy Endowed Professorship in the Classics
  Professor Michelle Berenfeld, classics
• Fletcher Jones Foundation Endowed Professorship
  Professor Geoffrey Herrera, political studies
• Flora Sanborn Pitzer Endowed Professorship
  Professor Norma Rodriguez, psychology
• Peter and Gloria Gold Endowed Professorship
  Professor Carina Johnson, history
  Professor Linus Yamane, economics
• Jean M. Pitzer Endowed Professorship
  Professor Claudia Strauss, anthropology
• Kenneth S. Pitzer Endowed Professorship
  Professor Donald McFarlane, biology and environmental science
• Pritzker Foundation Endowed Chair in the Joint Sciences
  Professor Marion Preest, biology, Claremont McKenna College
• Distinguished Chair in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology Endowed Fund
  Professor Sheryl Miller, Anthropology
• IGLAS Chair in Political Studies Endowed Fund
  Professor Nigel Boyle, political studies

With a gift of $5,000 or more, you can provide a one-year Pitzer Promise Scholarship for a high-achieving student with financial need. You will get to know a little about your scholar and, with your permission, they will learn a little bit about you, too! Part of the idea behind the Pitzer Promise Scholarship program is promoting a pay-it-forward ethos. With a gift to the Pitzer Promise Scholarship, you can help a Pitzer student become an engaged citizen of the world. It’s an investment in our shared future.

An endowed scholarship can be established now or created for the future through your estate plan. The principal of your endowed fund—the full amount of your gift—stays intact in perpetuity, with a percentage of the earnings providing the scholarship support. The balance of earnings in excess of the amount approved annually for payout will be retained in the corpus of the fund, allowing your endowment to grow. It is also a wonderful way to honor someone special that influenced you—a family member, a cherished friend or a beloved faculty or staff mentor.

• $100,000
  At this level, your named endowed scholarship may support students with financial need with preferential award criteria that you determine, such as a declared major or area of research interest.
• $50,000
  At this level, your named endowed scholarship will support any admitted Pitzer student with financial need.

Contact the Office of College Advancement if you have questions about creating or supporting a scholarship: 909.621.8130 or giving@pitzer.edu.

View the full list of our 70+ Named Endowed Scholarships

Pitzer College invites you to support students and participate in increasing our ability to provide need-based assistance to those who dream of a obtaining a college degree but do not have the means to fulfill the financial obligations. We encourage you to create your own named endowed scholarship fund in a way that means the most to you. Perhaps no other philanthropy has a greater impact on a student.

Should your current situation prevent you from establishing your own scholarship fund at present, we invite you to make a gift to any of Pitzer’s existing endowed or annual scholarships, all of which would benefit from your generosity and serve students. A list of those scholarships can be found here.

Help us provide access to a Pitzer education to aspiring students who need a financial leg-up to earn a college degree and prepare for a future of service, leadership and ideas and that transform the world. Please contact the Office of College Advancement at 909.621.8130 or giving@pitzer.edu if you have questions or are ready to create a scholarship and change a life.