Pratt Institute

“Family relationship: mike pratt, david o. Pratt, and anne h. Van ingen have a family relationship.”

“Review of 990: the return is prepared by an independent firm based on information provided by the organization and in consultation with the organization's staff. The draft prepared by the accounting firm is then submitted to the controller, vp of finance, the finance and audit committee for their review, and then to the full board of directors before filing the completed form 990 with the irs.”

“Conflict of interest policy: the organization has a written conflict of interest policy covering all trustees, officers, and employees that provides that no individual may participate in discussion or decision on any matter in which he or she has a material financial interest. All trustees, officers and individuals who have purchasing authority are required to certify compliance with the conflict of interest policy on an annual basis.”

“Process of determining compensation: compensation for the president, officers and key employees is determined by a process that includes the use of external comparability data, review and approval by the board and executive committee of the board of trustees, and contemporaneous recordkeeping of their deliberations and decisions. The president's compensation is reviewed and approved by the executive committee of the board of trustees. Based upon the review, president's compensation is then determined and approved by the board.”

“Disclosure: the organization's governing documents, conflict of interest policy and financial statements are available to the public upon request from the office of the vp of finance or the controller's office. In addition, the form 990 is available at guidestar.org. Form 990, part vii and schedule j compensation timing: compensation reported on part vii and schedule j is based on the calendar year within the taxpayer's fiscal year. For this fiscal 2018 form 990, calendar year 2017 compensation is reported. President bronet's tenure as president began in 2018; therefore, no compensation is reported on this return.”

“Net unrelated business taxable income line 7b includes unrelated business taxable income from qualified transportation fringe benefits (irc section 512(a)(7)). These amounts are not revenue, and therefore, are not reported on form 990, part viii. Form 990, part i and part iii, line 1 organization's mission: the mission of pratt institute is to educate artists and creative professionals to be responsible contributors to society. Pratt seeks to instill in all graduates aesthetic judgment, professional knowledge, collaborative skills, and technical expertise. With a firm grounding in the liberal arts and sciences, a pratt education blends theory with creative application in preparing graduates to become leaders in their professions. Pratt enrolls a diverse group of highly talented and dedicated students, challenging them to achieve their full potential.”

“Statement of program service accomplishments: line 4a: instruction: ---------------------- pratt offers 23 undergraduate degree and 32 graduate degree programs in art & design, architecture, liberal arts & sciences (undergraduate), information & library science (graduate) and center for continuing & professional studies. It offers more than 23 study abroad and international exchange programs in more than a dozen locations including rome, florence, milan, copenhagen, london and tokyo. In addition, pratt provides students with opportunities to enroll in eight dual degree programs. It also offers nine programs leading to an advanced certificate award: art & design education, archives programs, library & information specialist and museum libraries, minor programs in construction management, cultural studies and history of art & design. It also offers two full-time english as a second language (esl) programs for international students that focus on the language of art, design and architecture. Pratt institute's official enrollment for the fy2017-18 was 4,829 students. *undergraduate (3,412 students) -art: 932 -design: 1,466 -architecture: 703 -liberal arts & sciences: 163 -associate degree programs: 132 -pre-college - high school program: 16 *graduate (1,377 students) -art: 343 -design: 390 -architecture: 368 -information & library science: 186 -las: 70 -dual degrees: 20 *non-matric: 10 *exchange students: 30 degrees 1,388 -associate's degree: 52 -bachelor's degree: 754 -master's degree: 549 -post-baccalaureate certificate: 33 pratt institute's school of continuing and professional studies (scps) provides high-quality credit and non-credit courses and programs to the nontraditional student in a variety of subjects for educational advancement, career change, and enrichment. Included in its programs is the precollege program that provides high school students with a rigorous college level art, design and creative thinking courses, modeled after pratt institute's undergraduate offerings.”

“Statement of program service accomplishments: line 4b: academic support: -------------------------- scholarships are vital to fostering the unique abilities of the more than 4,000 talented young men and women enrolled at pratt, the majority of whom would otherwise be unable to benefit from the world-class, cutting edge education that the institute offers. Currently, over 80% of pratt students receive some form of financial aid. Scholarships provide these students with meaningful support that enable them to pursue their education while reducing their financial burdens. Pratt institute's endowed faculty development funds provide increased resources for the competitively awarded annual grants that not only advance pratt faculty members' research and creative interests but also strengthen the institute's curriculum overall. With the support of these funds, pratt faculty can undertake research and projects to advance the curriculum and their fields, explore new directions in teaching, and inspire new interdisciplinary work that will contribute to the learning environment. Specific activities might include studio projects, publications, travel, research, and cross-disciplinary courses and studies by faculty teams.”

“Statement of program service accomplishments: line 4c: public service: ------------------------ pratt's department of art and design education offers a variety of programs for the community. It provides opportunities for artists and designers of all ages to recognize pratt institute offers a number of programs, centers and initiatives that benefit the public and communities. A number of them are listed below. The art education program: pratt's department of art and design education offers a variety of programs for the community. It provides opportunities for artists and designers of all ages to recognize and develop their creative potential. Classes are held on pratt's campus where participants learn in a college environment. These programs prepare pratt students studying art & design education to work as teachers and artists while simultaneously bringing art and design classes to the community. Featured programs are design initiative for community empowerment (dice), pratt young scholars, saturday art school, and summer design. The spatial analysis and visualization initiative (savi): savi at pratt institute is a geographic information systems (gis)-centered initiative that provides students and faculty across disciplines access to gis and visualization resources. Savi is dedicated to pratt's commitment to benefit the greater community and provides services and gis technical assistance to new york city-based nonprofit, civic, and community-based planning organizations, and offers a gis and design certificate program through the school of continuing and professional studies. Savi maintains a database of spatial and informational data sets, available for public use on most networked computers at the pratt brooklyn campus. Below are three major grant projects that savi exchanged in for the fiscal year: tcs k-12: pratt's spatial analysis and visualization initiative (savi) has received a pratt center k-12 research fellowship to partner with tata consulting services (tcs) and design and pilot a 13-week curriculum for grades 7-8 that focuses on data, gis, and storytelling through maps. This project will build on tcs's existing technology awareness program, goit, which targets 6th-8th grade classrooms in urban areas that are underserved in the technology field. Goit is implemented internationally in 27 u.s. States and 3 canadian provinces and plans to offer this gis mapping curriculum next year to all participating schools. Savi and tcs collaborated closely in developing a modular curriculum that reflects goit's outcomes of tech awareness, as well as principles of gis, mapping, and social justice. Usfs: savi was awarded approximately $99,000 from the usda forest service to partner with the usda forest service's new york city urban field station (nyc usfs) to present the exhibit "who takes care of new york city?" in the queens museum this september. The exhibition will feature artists whose work aligns with the themes of community-based stewardship, civic engagement, and social infrastructure, including works by two nyc usfs artists-in-residence, matthew jensen and julia oldham. The nyc urban field station, a partnership between the usda forest service, the nyc department of parks & recreation, and the natural areas conservancy, has a mission to improve quality of life in urban areas by conducting and supporting research about social-ecological systems and natural resource management. Nag: expanding on past works with an additional funding award of approximately $27,000 from the new york state department of environmental conservation, savi has once again partnered with the north brooklyn neighbors (nbn) to update and build upon the existing online map-based community organizing tool, the nag toxicity map. The original had been lauded as an effective means for community participants and stakeholders to both understand key environmental issues and then take these issues and connect them back to their personal lives. The next iteration”

“Statement of program service accomplishments: line 4d: other program services: -------------------------------- student services: includes expenses incurred for students' activities and events by the following student support services departments: admissions, registrar, bursar, financial aid, athletics, international affairs, health & counseling, career services and other student services departments. The student affairs division provides programs and services that promote student personal and professional development, fosters a campus environment that is conducive to student learning and advocates for and supports students as they meet the challenges of the pratt experiences. The office of international affairs provides services to international students from over 75 countries as well as j1 exchange visitors, exchange students, professors and scholars. This office is responsible to ensure pratt's compliance with the department of homeland security and department of state. Institutional support: includes expenditures primarily incurred by the security office, strategic planning, office of institutional research information technology, academic marketing, finance, sustainability and other program services related general institute expenses. Operation and maintenance of plant: includes expenses for the maintenance and upkeep of buildings, management and support of the operations of physical plant facilities, utilities, cleaning and other related functions, capital renovation projects, etc. Pratt student union reopening in may of 2018 on the brooklyn campus. The student union is a place for the pratt community to gather, study, relax, and innovate. Features a main space with stadium seating and projector capability with the capacity to hold over 250 people. The student union houses three conference rooms, complete with video displays. Fy17/18 saw the completion of phase one of the construction of a 10 story residence dorm for first year students, located on emerson place. Each dorm floor will offer 24 students double room accommodation and 10 single use bathroom facilities arranged around a large central floor lounge with kitchenettes. Successful move and space renovation for the graduate communications design department in the design center building located on the brooklyn campus. Previously they were housed in manhattan. Auxiliary enterprises: the residential life and student housing expenditures are reported under auxiliary enterprises. Its mission is to efficiently and effectively administer a housing program in a learning centered environment that challenges and supports students to 1) enhance self-understanding 2) value community responsibility and 3) learn from their experiences. The policies, procedures and programs established and encouraged by residential life are those which enhance student learning and involvement outside the classroom. The institute manages and maintains numerous dormitories on and off campus and townhouses that provide housing for pratt students. In fy17/18, the renovated student center was opened, and construction continued on the new emerson dormitory. Included also in the auxiliary enterprise is the management of the student meal plan program, and activity resource center activities which are primarily maintained for the use and convenience of students, faculty and staff. Academic grants received $49,650 grant from the institute of museum and library sciences. The school of information developed dadalytics, a modular tool that performs supervised entity extraction from cultural heritage documents for generating linked open datasets. The funds supported the research and data gathering needed to inform the redesign and re-engineering of the tool, including an environmental scan, a series of meetings with key stakeholders, and the development of the prototype. $30,000 funding from the new york state department of environmental conservation. Pratt's design department contributed to the pilot program,”

“Other changes in net assets or fund balance: adjustment to contributions receivable (215,680) other reconciling items (40,806) postretirement related changes 8,505,521 ------------- total 8,249,035 =============”