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Annual Fund
Programming Fund
Reunion Fund
Examining the Foundations of our Nation
Doron Taussig ’99 has published a book that poses the question: Did you earn what you have? Did everyone else? The American Dream is built on the idea that Americans end up roughly where we deserve to be in our working lives based on our efforts and abilities; in...
How Following Sports Benefits Life
In his latest book, FANS: How Watching Sports Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Understanding (Algonquin Press 2021), Larry Olmsted ’84 examines the lives of those who are passionate about sports. He makes the case that the more you identify...
Researching a Timeless Tale
Jonathan Warren ’84, associate professor and former chair of the York University Department of English in Toronto, Canada, has edited a new and expanded Norton Critical Edition of Henry James’ gothic novella The Turn of the Screw(W.W. Norton 2021). His first...
A Compilation of Research on the Middle Ages
Writing Normandy: Stories of Saints and Rulers(Routledge 2020) brings together eighteen articles by historian Felice Lifshitz ’75/’76 ICY, some published for the first time. The articles examine the various ways in which local and regional narratives about the...
Celebrating Women’s History Month
The HCHSAA's Diversity Committee organized a program in celebration of Women's History Month that was focused on the legacy and efforts of Michelle Obama, the nation's first African-American First Lady. Dr. Khadijah Miller and Dr. Ernestine WILLIAMS Duncan...
Poetry as an Expression of our World
In Poems for Our Times (Austin Macauley 2021), Joyce BUKARESKY Block ’57 expresses the endurance of youthful to mature love as well as the poignancy of loss. Through her writings, Block shares her passion for social justice movements, and...
Student Supports Peers in Foster Care
Sarah M. ’23 is the founder of Achillea Peer Tutoring, a program that provides tutoring support to students in foster care. Sarah brings the unique perspective of being in foster care herself as a Hunter student and, while a resident in a group home, was pulled...
At the Forefront of Design
Norma MERRICK Sklarek ’44, FAIA, was the first Black woman to become a licensed architect in the states of New York (1954) and California (1962). Known as the "Rosa Parks of Architecture," until 1980, she remained the only licensed Black woman in California. Sklarek...
Twins Transform Their Home into a Laboratory
Twins JaeJeong K. ’21 and Jaeah K. ’21 have a passion for biology. With the onset of the pandemic and remote learning, they explored creating YouTube videos to keep other students engaged in the sciences while learning from home. Together, they...
Alumna is First Female Director of National Intelligence
Avril Haines ’87 will make history as the country’s first female Director of National Intelligence. Nominated by President-Elect Joe Biden, Haines will serve as the leader of seventeen U.S. intelligence agencies addressing domestic and foreign policy matters....
Hunter College High School current needs
Technology Items
✅ Student Chromebook Class Sets: A class set (30) of Chromebooks can be used for in-class writing and basic online search use. They are also used for AP Exam and other standardized online testing needs.
✅ Student Laptops Carts: A cart has 30 laptops and serves as a charging station and can be moved to each room needed, as needed; some depts (esp Science) require full laptops capacity.
Program Support
✅ Continuation of last year’s curriculum pilot program—Strother Fellows. Last spring 5 HS teachers applied for, and received fellowship funding, to co-partner with the Strother School of Radical Attention to study how to create attention-centered practices in the classroom and to share these curricula with other HCHS and other interested teachers through the Strother School.
Stipend to fund expansion of the HCHS FIRST Robotics program which is done in partnership with its corporate sponsor, Alliance Bernstein. AB has built a new student robotics lab in its new corporate headquarters in Hudson Yards. If HCHS can provide an additional mentor, we will be able to expand the number of students using the lab during the season and to provide middle school student access and activities in the fall.
Diversity Initiatives
✅ Payment of Marketing Outreach for HCHS entrance exam (direct marketing thru Daily
News to targeted geographic communities, parents of school age children)
✅ Funding for DEI consultants to support work of CS Admissions diversity work
✅ Funding support for struggling students (tutoring, additional counseling programs for 1 stgeneration students)
✅ College Trip for Fee waiver students (HCHSAA has funded this for several years). Costs have increased for this 3-day trip, with 3-4 College visits (hotels, bus, meals,chaperones).