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Department of English
Endowment

Support the English Department

"Creating a better education one gift at a time..."


Why donate to the English Department at UW?

By giving to the English Department at UW, you help to nurture the intellectual community and challenge we seek to foster in our classes, programs, hallways, and libraries. Among many benefits, your dollars go to bringing internationally known scholars and creative writers to campus, helping our students study abroad, supporting non-traditional students relocate to Laramie, spiffing up the Frost/Mathison Library, subscribing to journals, and giving much needed scholarship money to our highly talented majors. All of these endeavors help students and faculty to grow, learn, and think through literature, through language.  Read the words of two recent graduate students:

 
The graduate student funding provided by UW's English Department enabled me to leave the career position I'd held for eight years, and pursue my dream of continuing literary studies in graduate school. The financial support has allowed me to completely change where I'm heading professionally, bringing me a sense of personal fulfillment. I feel that the funding is channeled even further into the community by enabling me to reach out to undergraduate students at UW through the teaching opportunity it provides.

-Kerry Ceszyk, Graduate Student Teaching Assistant


I received funding to attend a TESOL conference in Colorado.  At this conference I learned new teaching techniques that I applied to teaching composition and ESL.  I believe that this experience enriched my education and improved my teaching, and without the funding I would not have been able to attend this conference.

-Keri Bjorklund, Graduate Student Teaching Assistant


To what types of programs and scholarships can I donate?


English General Discretionary:  Our most general fund, we use it to foster community. Over the past year, for example, we have drawn on this fund to refurbish the Frost/Mathison Library by purchasing new furniture and revealing the fine old maple floor beneath the worn carpet, to help our student group, the irrepressible "Upstart Crows," sponsor a poetry reading after the tragedy of 9/11, to welcome new students and faculty with a September barbeque, celebrate our graduating students with a commencement banquet in May, and buy book awards throughout the year to honor students and faculty. 

  
English Department Scholarship:  This fund goes directly to help our students take advantage of great opportunities or respond to particular needs.   For example, we use it to send an undergraduate team to a regional literary conference to present their research, to help support a graduate student with the photocopying or inter-library loan expenses involved in their master's thesis research, and to provide matching funds to help an undergraduate go on the London Semester.

If you are interested in giving to either of the funds described above and have a particular focus in mind, let us know. Similarly, let us know if you are interested in giving to one of our more targeted funds, e.g. one aimed specifically at supporting graduate students, or visiting creative writers, or the recruitment of non-traditional students.

 

How do I make my donation?


Online
If you wish to give to English General Discretionary or English Department Scholarship, you may use our secure form online. 

Mail
If you wish to give to a more specific fund or to indicate a particular focus within English General Discretionary or English Department Scholarship, send a check with your instructions to the English Department at the following address:
       
      English Department
 P.O. Box 3353
Laramie, WY  82071-3353
Checks can be made out to The English Department. 
   
 
Telephone
     If you have questions or wish to use your credit card but not on-line, please contact Patricia Romero at (307)766-6486.

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