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You Make Us Great

The Department of English is central to the University, and it is a critical resource for the larger community. Whatever careers they pursue, English graduates think, read, and communicate with critical intelligence, imagination, and creativity.

If you recognize the power of words not only to deliver knowledge and understanding but also to move, to shape, and to empower, supporting the Department of English is an ideal investment.

Your tax-deductible contribution provides our best students with vital encouragement and financial support. It provides our faculty with resources needed to enlarge our knowledge of language, literature, and culture. It helps to maintain a distinguished reputation for the department.

What Your Gift Can Do

You can help us attract and retain the very best students, scholars, and creative writers despite continuing declines in state support. Your help makes possible:

  • 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
    We need to ensure the excellence and competitiveness of our graduate programs so that we can compete successfully for the best faculty and brightest students. Today’s graduate students are tomorrow’s teachers and leaders.
  • A diverse and engaged undergraduate student body
    Although we are attracting better students than even before, too many outstanding students choose other institutions—often for financial reasons. Merit and need-based scholarships are needed to recruit outstanding students.

Choose a Fund

To remain competitive, we need your support for graduate student fellowships and undergraduate scholarship funds. The first two funds listed below are dedicated to such support; the third supports special events, research-related travel, and programming.

  • Faculty and Alumni Graduate Fellowship Fund
  • Beverly Atkinson Scholarship Fund
  • English Annual Fund

Your gift can help create the next generation of leaders and thinkers.

Make a gift to the Department of English online through the University of Minnesota Foundation.

Emily Paulson

For more information on ways to give, contact

Emily Paulson

CLA Development & Alumni Relations
220 Johnston Hall
101 Pleasant Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Email: paulsone@umn.edu

Phone: 612-626-5141

For other giving options, visit the U of M Foundation.