Giving

"Gifts from alumni and friends provide Columbia Journalism School with immediate current-use financial resources to execute these initiatives. With your support, we can make the J-School affordable for a more diverse student body. With your help we can give the next generation the opportunity to go into—and stay in—journalism. 

– Dean Jelani Cobb

The Annual Fund

The Annual Fund is the foundation of CJS, providing flexible support where it is needed most. Together, alumni help make a CJS education possible for talented students who might otherwise be unable to attend.

Many donors want to know exactly where their gift will make a difference. The Annual Fund gives the School the flexibility to respond to students’ most pressing needs, from scholarships and fellowships to hands-on reporting opportunities.

This is how CJS alumni invest in the next generation of journalists.

The Dean's Circle

Your Dean’s Circle gift goes to work immediately, helping turn admission into access and access into experience. Your support helps talented students say yes to Columbia and make the most of a CJS education.

ACCESS
Each year, talented students are admitted to CJS but face a difficult decision: not whether they belong here, but whether they can afford to attend. Dean’s Circle support helps ensure that financial need does not stand between a student and a Columbia Journalism education.

EXPERIENCE
Your support helps bring a CJS education to life. Students learn by doing, reporting in the field, building professional networks, and learning from award-winning faculty and journalists, including Journalists in Residence Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley.