The Department of Political Science is grateful for the valuable support it receives from alumni and friends. Your donations help the department meet its commitments to excellence in research, teaching, and public service. Thanks for your support!
The Department of Political Science Annual Fund
The Annual Fund provides unrestricted funds to aid in the achievement of the Department's multiple missions. These gifts are often the only source of discretionary funds available to meet the Department's needs. Annual gifts benefit the Department's students, programs, and faculty. They make it possible to recognize outstanding teaching; provide educational technology essential for learning, teaching, and research; fund student and faculty research initiatives; support innovative course development and other academic programs.
Bob Byars Scholarship for First-Generation College Students
The Bob Byars Scholarship is a need-based scholarship that assists in supporting fund for first-generation college students who are pursuing a degree in political science at the University of Illinois.
Donate to Bob Byars scholarship fund
The Dean S. Dorman Award
The Dean S. Dorman Award provides funds to political science students who are traveling to conferences and symposia in which they are participants.
Robert Pahre Fund for Off-Campus Program Development
The Robert Pahre Fund supports faculty development of all kinds of off-campus programs, including internships, field trips, field-experience courses, and study abroad.
Established by the Board of Visitors, the fund recognizes Professor Pahre’s service as Head of the Department of Political Science. The Fund’s goals reflect Pahre’s passion for experiential learning and his belief that off-campus programs help connect academic learning to the “real world” outside the classroom.
The Fund emphasizes program-level needs. For example, it may help purchase supplies for course development, support travel to build relationships and/or negotiate memoranda of agreement with local partners, support ways to bring off-campus experiences into the classroom through film or online modules, or pay for graduate teaching assistants and drivers in order to lower program costs to students.
Recognizing the cost of off-campus programs and unpaid internships, the Pahre Fund may also provide scholarships to individual students. However, it gives preference to proposals that will have an impact on many students by developing or improving programs.
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The Peter F. Rossiter Scholarship
This scholarship provides an award for a freshman, sophomore, and junior political science major and is awarded based on a combination of academic merit and financial need.
Donate to Peter F. Rossiter scholarship fund
Graduate Research and Professionalization Fund
This fund provides valuable support to graduate students for research and professionalization expenses, including conference travel and job market expenses.
Donate to the Graduate Research and Professionalization Fund