http://giving.tufts.edu/why_give/support_financial_aid.html

http://www.tufts.edu/development/news/2007/stern.html

http://giving.tufts.edu

http://www.tufts.edu/development/why_give/2007profiles/kaplan.html

http://www.tufts.edu/development/why_give/2007profiles/kaplan.html

http://ase.tufts.edu/philosophy/people/richard.shtml

http://president.tufts.edu

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Tufts University - Beyond Boundaries Newsletter Winter 2008 - Index

BEYO ND BOUNDARIES
4
THE TRUE VALUE OF FINANCIAL AID
Stern Scholars who have benefited from the
Sterns’ support for financial aid include
Laura Rivera, A08, and David Billig, A10.
A$10 million gift from
the chairman of the
Board of Trustees
James A. Stern, E72,
(above) and his wife,
Jane, gave a vital early boost to the
Beyond Boundaries campaign and
will have a continuing impact on
scholarship, teaching, and research.
Four million dollars from
the gift benefited undergraduate
student financial aid by augmenting
the Stern Family Endowed
Scholarship Fund, while $2 million
created an endowed fund for
graduate research fellowships.
Another $4 million endowed
the Stern Family Professorship
in Engineering, held by David
Kaplan, chairman of the biomedical
engineering department, and
the Lenore Stern Professorship in
Humanities and Social Sciences,
held by Mark Richard, chairman of
the philosophy department.
“The Sterns’ gift speaks to our
core mission,” says Tufts University
President Lawrence S. Bacow.
“On the student side, nothing is
as important as financial aid. At
the same time, endowed professorships
provide vital support for our
extraordinary faculty.”
The Sterns have been generous
supporters of Tufts who have preferred
to keep their giving quiet.
Winter 2008
“Great students and great faculty make
a great university.…What could be more
important to the mission of Tufts?”
—James Stern, E72, chairman,
Tufts Board of Trustees
Chairman’s Lead Puts Focus
on a Campaign Priority
Of their most recent gift, Jim Stern,
chairman and founder of a New
York-based private equity firm,
says: “Great students and great
faculty make a great university, as
President Bacow always says. What
could be more important to the
mission of Tufts?”
Two Stern Family Scholars
describe the richness of the Tufts
experience that financial aid helped
them realize.
David Billig, A10, of Livingston,
N.J., majoring in quantitative
economics and community health,
offers: “I’ve been exposed to new
things, to new topics in class I’d
never thought of before. It’s been
an eye-opening experience.”
Laura Rivera, A08, from Bronx,
N.Y., the seventh of eight children
of a Pentecostal minister and his
wife, is the first in her family to
attend a four-year college. “Where
I come from, people do not attend
schools like Tufts,” says the double-major
in psychology and public
health. “The Tufts experience
has allowed me to be a better role
model to my nieces and nephews
in grade school. Now they look
forward to attending an institution
like Tufts that will equip them, as
it is currently equipping me, with
tools that can change the world.”