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Your support opens doors to study abroad, internships and other rewarding student experiences. It boosts our degree programs and empowers our researchers.
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Gifts to our funds can be made via our secure online gift portal. These funds support scholarships, professional development, travel to conferences, study abroad opportunities and visits from scholars and lecturers.
Not sure where to give? The Communication Department Enhancement Fund provides flexible funding to support student, faculty and program expenses.
Our funds and endowments
- Communication Department Enhancement Fund: Unrestricted support for the programs and activities of the Department of Communication.
- Norma and Wally Ausley Endowed Scholarship: Merit scholarship for undergraduates with a concentration in communication media.
- C.A. Dillon Endowed Scholarship: Merit scholarship for Communication undergraduate major with a concentration in Communication Media.
- Joe S. Epley Endowed Scholarship: Merit scholarship for Communication undergraduate major (junior or senior) with a concentration in Public Relations and demonstrated financial need.
- William G. Franklin Endowed Scholarship: Merit scholarship for Communication undergraduate major.
- Mike Herman Memorial Award: Award for Communication undergraduate major, with preference for students with a concentration in Public Relations or an interest in reputation studies.
- Bob Larson Communication Award: Award for Communication undergraduate major, with preference for second semester sophomore or first semester junior, with a concentration in Public Relations.
- Rebecca and Ruth Leonard Endowed Scholarship: Merit scholarship for Communication undergraduate major with a concentration in Interpersonal, Organizational, and Rhetorical Communication and demonstrated financial need.
- Long, Javidi, PRSSA Endowed Scholarship: Merit scholarship for Communication undergraduate major with a concentration in Public Relations.
- Kara Ruth Medlin Memorial Endowed Scholarship: Merit scholarship for Communication undergraduate major who is a graduate of a North Carolina high school.
- Nancy and Melinda Snow Endowed Scholarship: Merit scholarship for Communication undergraduate major who is a member of Lambda Pi Eta.
- Edward Funkhouser Endowment Fund