Development
The Department of English is grateful to those alumni and friends who generously support our academic mission. Gifts large and small are crucial to the Department’s ability to promote the intellectual life of students and faculty.
There are a variety of ways to support the program. You may provide assistance through an annual gift, a major gift and planned gifts. These gifts may be directed to the Department though its General Fund or a restricted gift.
The General Fund is used to meet the English Department’s most immediate needs. Among its most important uses is helping to support students and faculty research efforts, travel by students and faculty to research conferences, technology acquisition and the sponsorship of scholars and writers who visit campus for lectures and readings.
Restricted gifts to the Department may be directed to fund a particular project or initiative. Among these are endowed scholarships, lecture series and professorships. In addition you may create new funding opportunities such as writing awards.
How to make a gift
Please make your check payable to the Miami University Foundation, designate English Department on the memo line, and send to:
English Department
c/o Miami University
725 E. Chestnut Street
Oxford, OH 45056
or give online:
Visit Miami’s secure, encrypted online giving form and then:
- Under Designations, enter the dollar amount of your contribution in the Other Fund box.
- Type in English Department in the Other (please specify other fund for contribution) box.
To learn more about the Department of English and how you can be a part of our future through your philanthropic support, please contact the Miami University Office of Development at 513.529.1230 or visit their website.
We encourage you to contact our Department Chair, Kerry Powell, at 513.529.5221 to learn more about the mission, direction and goals of the program. We look forward to hearing from you.
All of us in the English Department—faculty, staff and students—are thankful for your support.