School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS)

Join us with your gift and help provide the best education for our students by supporting the HASS Dean’s Excellence Fund.

GIVE TO HASS

The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute fosters the interdisciplinary collaboration needed to address the complex and urgent challenges of today’s world. 

As part of a highly creative research community, HASS students work alongside scientists, engineers, architects, business professionals, and world-renowned faculty members. HASS programs allow students to bring fresh perspectives to other areas of study and teach them to think critically about the ethical and social implications of rising technologies.  

Your gift to the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Dean’s Excellence Fund provides an outstanding student experience and educational opportunities for current and future generations of students, as well as needed funding for HASS’s highest priorities:

  • Experiential Learning & Student Opportunity
    Funds internships, conference travel, research stipends, career treks, and hands-on learning experiences that ensure HASS students can translate classroom knowledge into real-world impact, regardless of financial background.
  • Faculty Innovation & Research
    Provides flexible support for emerging scholarship, interdisciplinary initiatives, guest speakers, creative productions, and seed funding that positions HASS faculty at the forefront of the humanities, arts, and social sciences.
  • Strategic Program Enhancement 
    Strengthens signature programs in areas such as games and experiential media, communication, economics, cognitive science, and the arts by enabling timely investments in equipment, programming, and high-impact partnerships.
  • Dean’s Strategic Priorities & Emerging Needs
    Offers critical unrestricted resources that allow the Dean to respond quickly to new opportunities, pilot innovative ideas, and invest in areas of greatest potential impact for students, faculty, and the broader RPI community. 
RPI Dean Gibbons

“Every day, our innovative scholars undertake research and creative projects that explore fundamental aspects of the human experience — how we think and feel, what we value, how we express ourselves, and how we interact with the world around us.”

Dr. William Gibbons, Dean

For more information on The Dean’s Excellence Fund or how you can support the School of Humanities, Arts and Sciences, contact:

Shelby Crespino, M.A., MBA
Director of Development
cresps@rpi.edu
(C) (518) 708-7652
(O) (518) 276-3143