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Connecticut College receives $1 million gift to endow Center for Teaching and Learning
May 07, 2008
NEW LONDON, Conn. - Connecticut College has received a $1 million gift from Joy Shechtman Mankoff, a 1956 graduate of Connecticut College, to endow the college´s Center for Teaching and Learning.
The Center, which will now be called the Joy Shechtman Mankoff Center for Teaching and Learning, promotes engaged and effective teaching to cultivate significant student learning. The endowment will support the various activities of the Center, which include programming that facilitates the exchange of ideas about teaching and learning, a teaching seminar for incoming faculty and discussions about teaching and diversity.
"Connecticut College´s faculty is among the best in liberal arts education today," Dean of the Faculty Roger Brooks said. "Ms. Mankoff´s gift will ensure that all Connecticut College faculty will continue to have access to the resources they need to be teachers of the highest caliber."
Mankoff, who resides in Dallas, Texas, said she strongly believes in the mission of the Center and decided to endow it as her gift to Connecticut College. "Providing the resources to enhance teaching skills will inspire and motivate generations of college students to come," Mankoff said. "I am grateful to Connecticut College and pleased to support it in this way."
Among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 41 states, the District of Columbia and 71 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 86-year-old honor code. The college is located at 270 Mohegan Ave, New London, about two hours by car from Boston and New York. The 750-acre campus is an arboretum overlooking Long Island Sound. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu.
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For more information contact: Amy Sullivan (860) 439-2526; amy.sullivan@conncoll.edu