Generous Gifts from UW-Eau Claire
Current Faculty and Staff

Bernard and Patricia Duyfhuizen, Eau Claire, have given $25,000 to endow the Duyfhuizen Professorship in English Fund. The fund will provide English department faculty members with increased support for scholarly activities through an annual award to a faculty member who has shown sustained production and achievement in English studies scholarship. Bernard Duyfhuizen is interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of English at UW-Eau Claire.

Donations from UW-Eau Claire’s classified staff and a matching gift from an anonymous university administrator have created the Classified Staff Scholarship Fund. The first Classified Staff Scholarship recipients, announced in May 2003, are Tara Fuehrer, a junior business finance major from Auburndale, and Eric Krause, a senior management information systems major from Eau Claire. Jan Sikora, human resources, nominated Fuehrer; Michael Skarp, computing and networking services, nominated Krause. Classified staff members nominated 67 students for the scholarship, and the recipients were chosen randomly from a pool of all qualified nominees. All nominees must be full-time UW-Eau Claire students, and returning students must have a grade-point average of 2.0 or above. The scholarship will be awarded annually.

UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff continued their support of the university’s ongoing comprehensive campaign through gifts to Campus Campaign 2002-03. Since Fulfilling the Promise of Excellence began on July 1, 2000, 475 members of the UW-Eau Claire faculty and staff have contributed, and more than 130 of that group have made multi-year pledges. The goal is to achieve 30-40 percent participation in the campaign among faculty and staff. The campus campaign, which began during the 2001-02 fiscal year, officially kicks off each year during the month of February. All faculty and staff are invited to participate by making gifts to their favorite fund or program. Departmental advancement funds are a popular giving option because they provide the greatest degree of flexibility and support for individual departments. Many faculty and staff choose to give through payroll deduction.