FACULTY
The high level of learning you experience in our classrooms is the product of a world-class
faculty. In addition to senior development professionals, our faculty includes accountants,
lawyers, museum directors, and corporate executives. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the
field of fundraising, some of these renowned scholars/practitioners are drawn from other NYU
schools.
Together with the Heyman Center’s
advisory board of distinguished fundraisers, foundation leaders, and
private philanthropists, your professors lead you in exploring the dynamics and strategies of
fundraising and philanthropy through intelligent dialogue and debate. They also bring to the
classroom, as a matter of course, guest lecturers, case studies, research, and professional
expertise in order to show you by example how to excel—and inspire you to find a way to give back
to the profession, just as they do. As you come to know your professors through classes, workshops,
and industry events, you experience, firsthand, their dedication to academic discovery, their
eagerness to share their own research, and their commitment to mentor you while you conduct your
own intellectual inquiries.
ADMINISTRATION
Robert S. Lapiner, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
dean, School of Continuing and Professional Studies
Naomi Levine, B.A., LL.B., J.S.D.
executive director, George H. Heyman, Jr.,
Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising
Lewis Brindle, B.S., M.A.
academic program director, George H. Heyman, Jr.,
Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising
Claire Gaudiani,