Sustaining excellence
Investing in people
Our outstanding faculty and graduate students sustain the core of academic excellence at the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P). To continue to attract and retain the most exceptional doers and thinkers—those capable of blurring the boundaries between disciplines—we must invest in their spirit of innovation. Through graduate fellowships, endowed professorships, visiting professorships, and support for visiting artists, we will support their ability to solve the type of complex problems that keep SA+P at the cutting-edge of education and research. A School of Architecture and Planning education transforms lives. The people of the School of Architecture and Planning transform our environment.
Graduate fellowships
Endowed professorships
Visiting artists
Graduate fellowships
Increased support for graduate fellowships is the highest priority of SA+P. Students are the foundation of any university. At SA+P, they motivate fellow students with imaginative design, they inspire faculty with new ideas, and they add energy to our classrooms and studios. In an intensely competitive environment, financial aid often determines where the best students choose to study, and the best students help attract the very best faculty. Fellowship support is crucial to maintaining SA+P’s proud legacy.
One way to invest in the School of Architecture and Planning and its people is by directing your gift to the School’s Graduate Fellowships Fund.
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Endowed professorships
The caliber of the School rests upon its faculty. Like students, faculty are attracted to institutions where they can collaborate and build partnerships with other talented faculty and students. For MIT faculty members—for professors everywhere—being the incumbent in a named professorship is an honor. It tells the scholar that the Institute has enormous respect for the quality of his or her research and teaching. The extra resources that accompany such positions also provide professional flexibility that is prized by every professorship holder. Endowed professorships are a way to both reward great teacher-researchers and attract top new talent. They also strengthen the Institute’s financial foundations.
In order to recruit and retain outstanding faculty, the School must increase the number of endowed professorships in the Department of Architecture, in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), and in the Visual Arts Program.
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Visiting artists
At SA+P, our students and faculty are curious about ways of approaching the world—both socially and physically. The Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS), a fellowship program that commissions and produces new artworks and artistic research, is an outlet for this creativity and energy. CAVS parallels SA+P’s emphasis on humanity and the human experience. In the context of MIT, the Center offers an ideal environment for experimenting with new art forms and media. It facilitates an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas between internationally-known contemporary artists and MIT’s faculty, students, and staff through public programs, support for long-term art projects, and residencies for MIT students. Funds for visiting artists to CAVS are secured on a year-to-year basis. Gifts to CAVS help expand and enrich this program, and continue to attract artists of the highest caliber.
Unrestricted support to a specific department, center, or lab within the School of Architecture and Planning allows each program to flexibly respond to opportunities and projects immediately in its area. You may wish to search or browse for other giving opportunities within SA+P, or make a gift today by using our secure online giving form.
If you wish to speak to someone about a special gift in support of the School of Architecture and Planning, please contact Tia Tilson, assistant dean for resource development, at ttilson@mit.edu or 617.253.8896.
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