Create the Future of Wisconsin Political Science
Our sincere thanks to the many alumni and friends who have generously supported the University of Wisconsin's Political Science Department. Private gifts are increasingly critical to ensure that the Department maintains its stature as one of the nation's premier political science programs. Your donations help us to assist promising undergraduate majors and provide them with a range of extracurricular and leadership opportunities, host a stimulating series of talks and other scholarly activities, and attract and support the research and teaching of top faculty and graduate students. Gifts of any size are most welcome and gratefully received.
Selected Department Priority Funds
Other Funds:
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How to make a gift
If you wish to donate online, you may do so by clicking this link to the
University Foundation. The form will be pre-filled with information necessary to direct your gift to our department. If you wish for your gift to go toward a specific fund described below, please type the name of the fund in the "Designation" box.
If you prefer to make your gift by check, please make your check payable to the
University of Wisconsin Foundation/Dept. of Political Science, and send it to the University of Wisconsin Foundation, US Bank Lockbox, PO Box 78807, Milwaukee, WI 53278-0807. Please indicate if you wish your gift to go to one of the specific funds described below. Note: the UW Foundation’s bank is in Milwaukee; your contribution
will be correctly routed to the UW-Madison Political Science Department!
For more information on making a gift of securities or including the Political Science Department in your estate plans, please contact:
Steve Kean
University of Wisconsin Foundation
1848 University Avenue, PO Box 8860
Madison, WI 53708-8860
steve.kean@uwfoundation.wisc.edu
Selected Department Priority Funds
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- Department of Political Science Fund: Supports all aspects of our work including special opportunities for undergraduates, faculty research, graduate student research and training, and bringing in distinguished speakers. On the undergraduate level this fund has been used, for example, to support undergraduate journals, a parliamentary debate society, a political science honor society, undergraduate-run conferences, research assistantships, and many other opportunities.
- Centennial Fellowship Fund: This fund was established in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the Department. It supports fellowships for outstanding new graduate students working in any field of political science.
- Clara Penniman Student Opportunities Fund: Assists those who might not otherwise be able to afford the opportunity to undertake unpaid internships in Madison, Washington, DC, and other locations.
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Undergraduate Funds
- Barshefsky/Cohen Public Service Fund: Assists with administrative support, academic instruction, and scholarships for an internship in Washington, D.C.
- Elaine C. Davis Prize Fund: Provides a monetary award to a senior Political Science major in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. The recipient will also have demonstrated scholarship and leadership on campus and/or community affairs and demonstrated intellectual ability and curiosity, good citizenship and an appreciation of the world outside her or himself.
- Vera L. Elliott Political Science Scholarship Fund: This fund awards a scholarship annually to a student with Junior or Senior standing, enrolled full time in the College of Letters and Science with a declared major in Political Science, and with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better. The fund is targeted toward female students with additional preference given to a female from a minority group.
- Thomas L. W. Johnson Scholarship Fund: This scholarship, in memory of Thomas L.W. Johnson, is based on need and given to a student who is from out-of-state, a Political Science major, and a sophomore or higher.
- William F. & Fayette G. Taylor Political Science Internship: The William F. and Fayette G. Taylor Fund will be used to fund internships for students in the Department of Political Science, such as in government agencies or public interest groups. The internship may be during the regular academic year or summer.
- Prof. L. E. Pfankuchen Scholarship Fund: Awards a scholarship annually to a student attending summer session at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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- John Brown Mason and Frances J. B. Mason Scholarship Fund: The scholarship is for academically gifted applicants devoting a large portion of their education to the study of American government on the local, state or national level including its foreign relations, who have shown definite promise of ability as civic or political leaders in their respective communities or states, with special but not exclusive reference to the establishment and maintenance of good relations between varied racial, ethnic and religious groups.
- Rose Family Undergraduate Research Fellowship: The purpose of the fund is to support undergraduate students doing research in the Center for the Study of Politics. The Fund will provide resources to establish two semester long opportunities (one each in the fall and spring) for undergraduates who wish to pursue research projects guided by the Center's staff and director.
- Phillip J. Schemel Fund: Awards a scholarship annually to a deserving Political Science major from outside Wisconsin, with financial need, and with a preference for a New York or Connecticut resident. If no qualifying resident from outside WI can be identified, the scholarship may be awarded to a deserving Political Science major from Wisconsin.
- Judith Hicks Stiehm Scholarship: The purpose of this fund is to provide support to an undergraduate studying Political Science but not necessarily majoring in the field. It may be used for tuition or to enhance the learning experience by providing funding for an internship, travel or research. Preference should be given to residents of Wisconsin; however, if a qualified applicant is not available, it may be awarded to a student who is either a non-resident or foreign student. The student should demonstrate significant financial need. In addition, the student recipient should maintain at least a C plus average and may receive the award no more than two times.
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Graduate Funds
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- Lawrence J. Duran Graduate Fund: This fund will aid out-of-state graduate students in Political Science, with a preference for assisting minority students.
- Murray Edelman Fund: Established to honor the memory of one of our distinguished faculty, this fund provides crucial support for graduate students in their career development and in particular provides funding for them to attend and present research at major professional conferences.
- Leon D. Epstein Political Science Fellowship Fund: This fund commemorates Leon Epstein’s many contributions to the Department and University. It provides funding to enable the best and brightest graduate students to study in the department.
- John Brown Mason and Frances J. B. Mason Scholarship Fund: The scholarship is for academically gifted applicants devoting a large portion of their education to the study of American government on the local, state or national level including its foreign relations, who have shown definite promise of ability as civic or political leaders in their respective communities or states, with special but not exclusive reference to the establishment and maintenance of good relations between varied racial, ethnic and religious groups.
- Mildred Potter Hovland Political Science Scholarship Fund: This fund supports scholarships for the continuing education of persons seeking a graduate degree in Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- Dr. R. Gordon Hoxie Distinguished Graduate Fellowship: Recipients of this award are full-time incoming graduate students enrolled in the Department of Political Science. Preference given to students studying in the areas of the Presidency, Congress, American government and politics, public administration, and public finance and budget.
- Clara Penniman Fellowship Fund: This fund supports graduate fellowships for students working in the field of American government, preferably public administration.
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Faculty Funds
- John M. Gaus Travel Fund: This fund is used to pay for faculty travel to conferences or for research purposes.
- Glenn B. and Cleone Orr Hawkins Political Science Professorship: The five-year professorships provide money for research support such as travel, project assistants, computer time, summer support, released time, and clerical support. In addition to the stipend needed, fringe benefits are also paid. The Professorships are awarded for five years each and are not renewable.
Speakers Series and Other Purposes
- American Politics Colloquium: The fund will be utilized to cover the expenditures of bringing in guest lecturers and/or speakers for the American Politics Colloquium.
- Lloyd D. Gladfelter Fund: This fund provides annually one or more awards to encourage suggestions from public employees, who are not elected officers, for improvement of public service, federal, state, county or municipal, in the State of Wisconsin. Each year, a board appointed by the Political Science Chair will select the public employee or employees whose suggestions for improvement of public service are most meritorious.
- Thomas Leonard Wemple Johnson Endowment: This fund is to be used for any project(s) that the Political Science Chair may wish to fund.
- Political Philosophy Colloquium: This fund supports an ongoing colloquium in political theory.
- Political Science Community Fund: Designated for the use of the Chair of the Department for purposes that he or she deems important in establishing and reaffirming a sense of community among the faculty, staff and students of the Department. This includes functions relating to retirements, welcome ceremonies and any other occasion that the chair considers to be team building or morale building in nature or that allow the department to function as a productive community.
- Skornicka Public Service Fund: This fund provides seed money for academic credit based service learning or community based research conducted by undergraduate or graduate students in courses within the Department of Political Science that would benefit a community-based nonprofit organization, a local government agency, or a regional government collaboration planning efforts in Wisconsin. Specifically these funds might be used to pay for: office supplies, equipment, transportation, part-time staff support for the instructor, speaker expenses in political science or in related disciplines from other UW-Madison department, colleges and schools (whose area of expertise is service learning or community based research or is a speaker or specialist on an issue of concern locally or regionally).
- Trice Political Science Fund: This fund provides financial support for the Chair of the Political Science Department to use for unexpected projects and other programs within the Department that need attention throughout the year for which no usual resources are available.