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Make a Gift

You Make Us Great

During our 101-year history, many of our graduates have made distinguished contributions to the discipline and to communities around the world. Our outstanding faculty have received recognition from every professional association affiliated with our discipline. Our students mirror that excellence through their own research and study. Your gifts can help us build upon our impressive history.

Your tax-deductible contribution provides our students with encouragement and financial support. It gives our faculty the resources to increase our understanding and knowledge of human communities. It helps to maintain a distinguished reputation for the department.

What Your Gift Can Do

Your generous support for the Department of Sociology is more critical than ever. It helps us attract and retain the very best scholars and students even as state funding declines.

Your contribution allows us to ensure:

• A distinguished faculty
  Creating endowed chairs and professorships and supporting interdisciplinary research centers and programs will help us recruit and retain outstanding faculty.
• Excellence and competitiveness of our graduate program
  Faculty choose institutions that attract the best graduate students. We need to ensure the excellence and competitiveness of our graduate programs so that we can compete for the best faculty and brightest students.
• A diverse and engaged undergraduate student body
  Although we are attracting better students than even before, too many outstanding students choose other institutions. The deciding factor is often finances. Merit and need-based scholarships are essential to our success in recruiting these talented students.

Choose a Fund

To remain competitive, we need your support for our annual fund, graduate student fellowships, and faculty research funds. We have several funds that may interest you.

• The Sociology Annual Fund supports annual and special programs such as the Sociology Research Institute (SRI), Life Course Center, Teaching Resources Center (TRC), and Graduate Student Professional Development/Travel Fund.
• The Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship Fund is designed to recruit and support exceptional Ph.D. candidates. The fellowship enables students to work closely with a sociology faculty mentor. Gifts for graduate fellowships of $25,000 or more qualify for a match through the 21st Century Graduate Endowment Fund. The principle of the endowment gift will be invested, and a percent of the returns (the payout) will be used to support the fellowship. That payout will be matched, thereby doubling the impact of your gift.
• The Sociology Undergraduate Research Fellowship Fund was created to recognize increasingly excellent scholarship, research, and professional participation among our undergraduate majors. Developing sources of funding for undergraduate research has become a high priority in the department.
• The Cooperman Sociology Summer Institute Fund, established to honor Prof. David Cooperman, is designed to encourage faculty in the department to take time from their normal research and teaching duties to expand the traditional boundaries of sociology and incorporate concepts and paradigms from other scientific disciplines.
• The Ron Anderson Technology and Social Cohesion Fellowship Award provides support to current and incoming graduate students as they pursue research interests related to information technology.
• The Don Martindale Scholarship Fund was established in 1990 in memory of our former colleague. This annual merit award is presented to a graduate student on the basis of her/his excellence in scholarly achievement throughout the graduate career.
• The Anna Welsch Bright Memorial Fund was initiated in 1989 by the family of a department alumnus in support of graduate student research. The funds are awarded competitively each year to graduate students for whom the award will make a significant improvement in their research toward their Ph.D.
• The Roberta Simmons Memorial Research Fund was initiated with gifts received in honor of Professor Roberta Simmons. This fund provides discretionary support for graduate student research, recognizing the high quality of Professor Simmons's mentoring and research partnerships with graduate students during her career. Your gift can help support the next generation of leaders and thinkers.