The Cleo Martin Teaching Excellence Fund is named for, and supports the goals of, one of our pioneering teachers and scholars, Cleo Martin, who was instrumental in founding the Reading Center and the Writing Center as well as being a wonderful teacher. The fund honoring her enduring legacy is accordingly used for rewarding or supporting teaching excellence (including our Professional Development Program, developing new courses, occasionally paying for faculty to attend pedagogical conferences, and much more, including awarding annual prizes for our outstanding graduate instructors).  The fund supports and rewards both proven excellence in teaching and innovation in pedagogy as the educational world develops and unfolds.

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The Department of Rhetoric Gift Fund offers general department support and promotion of our achievement of excellence. In addition to inspiring and rewarding undergraduate achievement in Rhetoric (speaking, writing, multimodal composition), the fund is used to support faculty initiatives and collaborative endeavors with other units on campus. The recent creation of the Department’s skills-based Minor in Rhetoric and Persuasion has been advertised and supported using this fund and our consideration of future plans and applications of Rhetoric across the curriculum [with Business, Nursing, Health, Sports, Law, STEM, for example] also receive support.

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The Communication Studies Gift Fund provides general support for the University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies.

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