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-Yeshiva University President - Excellence
Pursuit of Excellence
Yeshiva University stands proud in the top 40 academic research universities in the nation and among the top three in the New York area. We seek excellence in higher education, in student life, and in our relationships with our partners and communities. We look to realize our full potential through development of a strategic plan, aimed at harnessing the vast array of resources embodied in our schools and affiliates.
Ronald P. Stanton Makes $100 Million Gift to YU
Former YU chairman of the board and New York City industrialist Ronald P. Stanton has announced a gift of $100 million to Yeshiva University. The largest single gift ever in North America in support of Jewish education and Jewish life, Mr. Stanton’s contribution affirms his commitment to Yeshiva University’s distinctive mission and his endorsement of the strategic direction set by the University’s president, Richard M. Joel.
The contribution creates the Ronald P. Stanton Legacy, an innovative philanthropic fund to help realize the University’s bold strategic directions to enhance undergraduate and Jewish education. This “revolving” fund will provide the means to expeditiously pursue projects, acquisitions, and programs identified by the University President. The Ronald P. Stanton Legacy will benefit the University’s growth initiatives in facilities acquisition and renovation, the recruitment and retention of top quality faculty across the various disciplines, faculty research and scholarship, and undergraduate and Jewish education. Assets drawn from the fund will be replenished as named gifts for these initiatives are received from other benefactors.
Mr. Stanton is chairman of Transammonia, Inc., a private company that trades, distributes and transports fertilizer materials, liquefied petroleum gases, petrochemicals, and crude oil. Established by Mr. Stanton in 1965, Transammonia is listed by Forbes magazine as one of the nation’s 100 largest private corporations.
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President Joel and Mr. Stanton speaking to the YU Board of Trustees.
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Born in 1928 in Wiesbaden, Germany, Mr. Stanton immigrated to the United States in 1937. His involvement with Yeshiva University began soon after, when he was offered a scholarship by Congregation Shearith Israel, the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue in New York, to study at the institution and prepare for a career in the rabbinate. He preferred a career in business, and chose to study economics at City College of New York, from which he graduated in 1950. However, he formed a long-standing personal and philanthropic relationship with the University. In 1976, he was elected to Yeshiva University’s Board of Trustees; in 1992, he was named a Vice Chairman and 10 years later was elected the seventh Chairman of the Board. He continues to serve as the longest serving member of the University’s board. As Chairman of the University’s successful $400 million capital campaign, launched in 2000, he guided the campaign to its goal in just three years. For that campaign, he established a $10 million capital fund.
“We are extremely grateful to Ron for his historic beneficence, as well as his steadfast confidence in Yeshiva University’s mission,” said President Richard M. Joel. “Indeed, Ron is ensuring that Yeshiva University solidifies its position as one of America’s ‘top-tier’ research universities, while also maintaining its unique identity in academia – a place where excellence in liberal arts and sciences is pursued hand-in-hand with the timeless teachings of the Jewish story, and where wisdom is brought to life through a value-centered education that fosters a heightened sense of advocacy and responsibility to the betterment of humanity.”
“The people who created Yeshiva University expressed a boldness of purpose and imagination as well as the dedication and willingness to give of themselves in order to achieve where we are today,” said Mr. Stanton. “I have confidence in President Joel’s far-reaching vision of where the University should be tomorrow, and am thankful to be able to give my own contribution to help him achieve it.”
A previous gift from Mr. Stanton endowed the Hedi Steinberg Library at Stern College for Women, the University’s undergraduate college of arts and sciences for women, named for Mr. Stanton’s mother. She was an inspiring life force for Mr. Stanton through her deep and abiding commitment to Jewish causes. This commitment was magnificently manifested in her efforts on behalf of Yeshiva University and other Jewish organizations.
Presidential Fellows Program Readies for Third Year
Fifteen 2006 graduates of Yeshiva University’s undergraduate schools will remain at the university as Presidential Fellows for the 2006-2007 school year.
Established by President Richard M. Joel and now in its third year, the Presidential Fellowship in University and Community Leadership is part of a broader effort to train top graduates at the university and expand YU’s service to the Jewish community.
“The program has motivated the participants to reflect on the positive experiences they have had at Yeshiva University and examine the opportunities in the Jewish community –– both for laypeople and professionals –– in light of their interests and skills,” said President Joel. “The Fellowship inspires the participants to reach for the nobility –– and responsibility –– that come with leadership.”
The Presidential Fellows were chosen after an intense screening process based on their academic performance, campus leadership, and involvement with the Jewish community. Each fellow will work with a senior administrator, who will mentor them and elicit their feedback as former students.
The new Presidential Fellows are: Rivvy Ackerman, a psychology major at Stern College for women, who will work in the Wurzweiler School of Social Work Dean’s Office; Yoel Eis, a history major at Yeshiva College, who will work in Enrollment Management; Eli Hagler, a management major at Sy Syms School of Business, who will work in the Office of Student Affairs on the Wilf Campus; David Herring, also a management major at Sy Syms, who will work in the Office of Purchasing and Materials Management; Joshua Jacoby, a political science major at YC, who will work at the Yeshiva University High School for Boys; Tiffany Khalil, an English literature major at Stern, who will work in the Office of Student Affairs on the Beren Campus; Jen Kraut, a history major at Stern, who will work in the Stern College Dean’s Office; Menachem Menchel, a psychology major at YC, who will work in the Office of Community Advancement in community affairs; Eliana Rudolph, an English communications major at Stern, who will work in the Office of the President; Eliezer Shaffren, a psychology major at YC who will work in the Office of the Vice President for University Life; and Barrie Zigman, an English communications major at Stern who will work in the Department of Communications and Public Affairs.
Three Presidential Fellows will work in YU’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) : Beth Katz, a history major at Stern; Avi Narrow-Tilonsky, an economics major at YC; and Laya Pelzner, an English communications major at Stern.
For the first time, the program will place a fellow, Aliza Mainzer-Hughes, an art history major at Stern, at the Yeshiva University Museum.
The program is administered by Elysia Stein and directed by Rabbi Josh Joseph. The Fellows attend a graduate-level weekly leadership seminar covering key topics in university administration and Jewish communal leadership.
“I hope the fellowship will build on some of the skills that I have, and teach me more about Jewish communal leadership at a level I would not be exposed to elsewhere,” said Stern College graduate Laya Pelzner.
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