Carol Tatkon Center

The Carol Tatkon Center connects the Cornell academic and residential experiences for first-year students on North Campus. Located in a renovated wing in Balch Hall, it provides settings for classes, seminars, meetings, faculty-student interaction, and support-services referrals, as well as a café for social gatherings. Computer accessible for wireless or plug-in applications, the center also has a walk-in writing service, a browsing library stocked with books by Cornell faculty members, and corridors lined with cases displaying student and faculty art. More than a facility, the center helps establish both comfort, community, and camaraderie among first-year students.

Types of support

Cornell welcomes gifts of all sizes. Select naming opportunities are described below.

Named Director, Carol Tatkon Center: $1 million

The director fulfills the mission of the first-year experience to “create and sustain an environment that promotes the intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, civic, career, and physical development in an academic community that embraces freedom with responsibility as a defining value.” The director oversees full-time professional student services staff and part time student staff in the operation and programming of the center.

Tatkon Center Director’s Discretionary Fund:  $100,000

Discretionary funding strengthens the diversity of programming made available to all first-year students at the Carol Tatkon Center.  It could support such things as tutoring sessions, exploration of careers in the majors, writing seminars, “Let’s Talk” counseling hours, financial-aid information sessions, prelim study groups, visiting speakers, and special exhibitions.

Large Classroom, Carol Tatkon Center:  $250,000

The large classroom hosts classes, special guest speakers, student group meetings, and other campus gatherings. While designed to fit 100 people lecture-style for classes, it is equipped with projection technology and can be set up with tables for conferences.

 

To discuss support for Helen Newman Hall, contact Laura Hunsinger.