Brown CS educates 15% of Brown’s undergraduate students and has 10.5% of the University’s course enrollment, but only 4.6% of its regular faculty. [Source] We need your help to supplement substantial investments from the administration in order to meet student demand and support our growth.
Interest in CS at Brown continues to break records, and we’re working harder than ever to provide the outstanding educational and research experience our students expect. Recently, our student/faculty ratio has been in the 180-210 range. The next five highest ratios among other departments at Brown are in the 100-115 range, which we had a decade ago.
The administration is making major investments in the expansion of CS at Brown, as exemplified by our five new faculty hires last year alone. Your gifts will bolster and accelerate this exciting phase of growth.
– Brown University President Christina H. Paxson
Please help us continue to grow. Here are named giving opportunities for endowed funds as well as opportunities for gifts of any size to current-use funds:
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Endowed University Professorships / $5 million
Naming opportunity to support recruitment and retention of distinguished senior faculty. -
Endowed Assistant Professorships / $2 million
Naming opportunity to support recruitment and retention of rising star junior faculty. -
Endowed Computer Science Undergraduate Teaching Assistantships / $50,000+
Naming opportunity to support hiring undergraduate teaching assistants. -
Computer Science Innovation Fund / Endowed gifts of $100,000+ and current-use gifts of any amount
Opportunities to support innovative research and educational projects, particularly curriculum redesign, research in core and emerging areas, and the socially responsible computing program. These funds will also help meet critical space needs such as the modernization of classrooms, labs, and collaborative spaces.
Make a Gift
For more information about how you can support Brown CS, please contact:
Nicole Peters Sisson
Senior Director of Development
nicole_peters@brown.edu
1+ (401) 863-9877
Source: Brown’s Office of Institutional Research and Department of Computer Science. The 15% percentage refers to the fraction of undergraduates who concentrate (i.e., major) in Computer Science or joint degrees in CS and another discipline. Regular faculty comprise tenured faculty, tenure-track faculty, lecturers, senior lecturers, and distinguished senior lecturers.
