Ellen Flint Price, K’55, Launches Faculty Endowment Challenge

Cranbrook Schools has announced a new challenge set forth by Kingswood alumna Ellen Flint Price, K’55.

This $2 million challenge matches dollar for dollar all gifts to the Arlyce M. Seibert Faculty Endowment Fund. Many alumni, parents, and students have great appreciation for the faculty who have taught them over the years—not just academic subjects or athletic skills, but life lessons that prepared them for the future.

The Cranbrook Schools faculty is compensated far below area public school and independent school levels. With many of our longest-serving faculty preparing to retire in a few years time and the subsequent need to replace them with instructors of similar caliber, the Board of Governors established a new initiative. Taking into account the inherent benefits of teaching at our unique school, its goal is to increase salaries to 85% of area public school standards. To achieve this, Cranbrook Schools is raising a minimum of $9 million for faculty endowment.

Fundraising to improve faculty compensation has been ongoing since the inception of the Campaign for Cranbrook in 2002. This new $ 2 million challenge from Ellen Flint Price, launched on Reunion Weekend 2008, has the potential is to raise a total of $4 million.

If you share the deep respect and affiliation for our faculty that so many students have felt over the years, we hope that you will consider a gift. Please e-mail schoolscampaign@cranbrook.edu for information on making a gift.

Click here to review a timeline of just a few of Brookside, Cranbrook, and Kingswood’s longest-serving faculty.