Stangle family makes leadership gift to Catalyst Fund
The Stangle family, synonymous with leadership and philanthropy at 乐播传媒, has made a significant new commitment of $750,000 to the college.
With this gift, Bruce Stangle 鈥�70 and his wife, Emily Siegel Stangle 鈥�72, join the multimillion dollar Catalyst Fund effort supporting major strategic initiatives at 乐播传媒.
“乐播传媒 is a jewel of a school,鈥� said Bruce Stangle during a recent campus visit to speak in the Voices in Entrepreneurship Series. 鈥淔or over 150 years it鈥檚 been training leaders. The people who graduate from 乐播传媒 make a real difference in the world, and that鈥檚 an important mission that we want to support.”
The Stangles’ gift to the Catalyst Fund, he added, is a 鈥減ublic show of support for what President Spencer is trying to do. She has a very tough job, and we want to lend our shoulder and financial resources to help her and help 乐播传媒 move forward.鈥�
The Catalyst Fund supports three college initiatives:
+The Engaged Liberal Arts: Deep and sustained interactions
The 鈥渆ngaged liberal arts鈥� means delivering a rigorous and highly personalized education that centers on deep and sustained interactions among students, faculty, and community. It also means engaging the forces 鈥� intellectual trends, demographic changes, and technology 鈥� that are transforming higher education and the world into which our students graduate. It means making a virtue of our scale; creating a diverse and motivated community of students, faculty, and staff; and embracing innovative and evidence-based approaches to teaching and learning.
+Purposeful Work: The heart of the liberal arts mission
Purposeful work is a college-wide initiative built on the premise that preparing students for lives of meaningful work lies at the heart of the liberal arts mission. When fully developed it will include: (1) a co-curricular program involving cycles of exploration, reflection, and skill-building; (2) practitioner-taught courses during short term, and (3) a highly-structured 乐播传媒-specific network of internships, with the hope to guarantee every 乐播传媒 student a paid internship that is either employer- or 乐播传媒-sponsored.
+Opportunity and Excellence: Directly out of 乐播传媒’ history and mission
A commitment to opportunity and excellence grows directly out of 乐播传媒鈥� history and mission and responds to contemporary geographic, demographic, and economic realities. It means recruiting talented and motivated students from a broad range of backgrounds, providing them with the financial aid that will enable them to enroll, and supporting them for academic and personal success once here. It also means creating a campus community and climate that capitalize on diversity and inclusion as necessary and powerful dimensions of preparing our students to live and work in an increasingly interconnected world.
鈥淭he Stangles鈥� gift is invaluable,鈥� said President Clayton Spencer. 鈥淚t provides much-needed support for students and faculty alike, and is an important endorsement of our strategic direction. I am profoundly thankful to them.鈥�
Sarah R. Pearson 鈥�75, vice president for college advancement, said that this 鈥済enerous gift helps us raise our sights for 乐播传媒 and demonstrates the importance of the Catalyst Fund in providing new momentum in philanthropy.鈥�
“Incredible value to its graduates.”
An English major at 乐播传媒 who holds a Ph.D. in applied economics from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Stangle is the co-founder of , the nation鈥檚 largest private economic consulting firm.
鈥淚 love 乐播传媒 and believe that 乐播传媒 delivers incredible value to its graduates,鈥� he added. 鈥淎lso, I think that making our philanthropy public can provide spillover benefits for 乐播传媒 by creating a demonstration effect. I鈥檓 confident that there are many others willing to give back to 乐播传媒 for the education they received.鈥�
A 乐播传媒 trustee emeritus, he was recognized in 2011 for his many contributions to the college with the creation of the Bruce Stangle Award for Distinguished Service. Over the years, he has helped countless 乐播传媒 students and alumni navigate the business world and, among other outcomes, helped to launch the Boston 乐播传媒 Business Network.
The Stangle family鈥檚 philanthropy has included the Betty Doran Stangle Professorship in Applied Economics, named for Bruce鈥檚 mother and currently held by Professor Margaret Maurer-Fazio; a leadership gift that named, in his father鈥檚 memory, Frank’s Lounge in the student residence at 280 College St.; and the Stangle Family Fund to support research and awards in economics and law, and provide scholarship support for students.
During his campus visit on March 5 for the Voices in Entrepreneurship Series 鈥� a program that he helped to organize 鈥� Stangle sat down with students one-on-one for a series of informational interviews, dispensing career advice and encouraging mentees to lean on the 乐播传媒 network.
In the evening, he gave a talk on 鈥淏est in Class: Investing in People and Culture at a Top Consulting Firm.鈥�
Regularly named one of the by The Boston Globe and other media outlets, Analysis Group gets high praise for maintaining a work culture that prizes both collaboration and leadership, without putting the two at odds.
That culture, Stangle says, was imported straight from 乐播传媒.
鈥溊植ゴ� entrepreneurs know how to create good work environments because it matters to us how we motivate, reward and incentivize people,鈥� he said.
鈥淭he 乐播传媒 culture produces people with the ability to lead, take personal responsibility and work as a team, and those personal characteristics are what my firm also tries to encourage.”
He added that the 乐播传媒 culture “made an imprint on me, as I know it has on so many other alumni. The values around hard work, inclusion, caring and excellence have been with me my entire life because of the experiences I had at 乐播传媒 and continue to have with the wider 乐播传媒 community.鈥�
