Riverdale, NY – Manhattan College announced that Tom O’Malley, a 1963 graduate of Manhattan College, has committed to provide the largest gift in the college’s history: $25 million to increase student scholarships and grants, while deepening the curriculum and research opportunities. The college’s School of Business will be known as The O’Malley School of Business.
Having grown up in Staten Island in the 1950s, O’Malley paid for college by driving a cab on weekends and a bus for a private school on weekdays.
His working-class background mirrors Manhattan College’s student body: 1/3 of the 3,400 undergrads are first-generation students; more than half are from the New York tri-state area.
O’Malley is giving those students the opportunity for an affordable education at a small school in the world’s financial capital.