About the NYFAA
The New York Fisk Alumni Association
We are the flagship alumni chapter. Come connect with Fiskites young and old in New York. Find out about events, scholarships, and ways to give back. Meetings are held every 2nd Saturday of the month at 11:30am at:
Alpha House located at
887 St Nicholas Ave (155th St),
New York, NY 10032
Scope of Activities
To maintain and promote the loyalty of its alumni to Fisk University; to promote the interest of Fisk University generally; to establish and administer fundraising related other endeavors undertaken by the alumni; to organize and mobilize strength of the alumni and cooperate with the University in suggesting and of designed to affect the continued growth and welfare of Fisk University; to an interest and usefulness of Fisk University, and to these ends to take and hold gift, grant, purchase, lease, or otherwise any property, real, personal, tangible, of best promoting the alumni chapter and Fisk University.
Mission
Satisfy students’ extraordinary thirst for learning. Pursue academic excellence.
Vision
Provide scholarships for needy NY/NJ area students attending Fisk University.
Did You Know…
Over the years Fisk has gained an international reputation for the high quality of its educational programs as well as its outstanding alumni. Even before regional accreditation was available to historically black institutions in the South, the work of Fisk had gained recognition by the Board of Regents of New York State and by leading universities throughout the nation.
About Fisk
Fisk’s Past and Present
Barely six months after the end of the Civil War, and just two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, three men — John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. Smith — established the Fisk School in Nashville, named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmens Bureau, who provided the new institution with facilities in former Union Army barracks near the present site of Nashville’s Union Station. In these facilities Fisk convened its first classes on January 9, 1866. The first students ranged in age from seven to seventy, but shared common experiences of slavery and poverty — and an extraordinary thirst for learning.
In 1954, Fisk became the first, private, black college accredited for its music programs by the National Association of Schools of Music. Today, Fisk also holds memberships in the American Association of Schools of Music, the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business, and the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Its department of chemistry is on the approved list of the American Chemical Society. Fisk is a member of the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States and is approved for teacher certification purposes by the State of Tennessee Department of Education.
Today, Fisk is recognized nationally for its ability to produce young leaders. Specifically, Fisk has received multiple awards for our traditional capacity to put students, many of whom are the first generation of their families to enroll in higher education, on the pathway to academic success. In the last three academic years, Fisk has been recognized for its success in graduating students by the Chronicle of Higher Education, Princeton Review’s Best 368 Colleges, US News & World Report, and Washington Monthly. The consistent theme throughout those accolades is that Fisk excels among all liberal arts schools in the nation in terms of research, service learning opportunities and its work to aid the social mobility of 1st generation college students.
