| Can You Help?
The financial support of its alumni and friends is important to the Department of Philosophy. Please consider a contribution to the Department in your charitable giving. Your gift to the Philosophy Department Operations Fund can assist the department in a number of ways: by helping to fund the monetary awards given yearly to the authors of award-winning student papers presented at the Philosophy In-House Conference; by helping to fund the Cresswell Award, given yearly to an outstanding graduating senior in Philosophy; by helping the Department purchase periodicals, reference works and other books for the Department of Philosophy library. Your tax deductible check can be made payable to the WVU Foundation, earmarked specially for the Department of Philosophy Operations Fund (Fund #2V336). Send your contribution to the WVU Foundation at :
WVU Foundation
1 Waterfront Place
P.O. Box 1650
Morgantown, WV 26507-1650
As you may already be aware, West Virginia University has recently embarked on its "Building Greatness" fund raising campaign. We would also, with your support, like to build a great Department of Philosophy. Philosophy already has a reputation as a student-centered department with faculty who are both strong teachers and excellent researchers. We hope you will consider helping us to become even better. As the "Building Greatness" campaign proceeds, we are looking for donors who are interested in establishing special endowments that will fund the following departmental activities:
1 . Philosophy Ethics Bowl Team
2 . Student awards (including the Cresswell Outstanding Senior Award; Outstanding Undergraduate Philosophy Paper Awards, Student Conference Travel Awards, and so on).
3. In-House Philosophy Conference and Philosophy Career Night (activities that involve our students in making academic presentations to students and faculty and interacting with successful Philosophy alumni).
4. Applied Ethics Day (an activity which benefits the entire campus by bringing prominent ethicists to campus to discuss issues of pressing concern in such areas as environmental ethics, biomedical ethics, engineering ethics, and so on).
5. Philosophy Club activities
These are only a few examples of ways in which you can help. If you would like to discuss these or other special endowments, please contact Dr. Sharon Ryan (sharon.ryan@mail.wvu.edu), Chair of the Department of Philosophy, or Dr. Rudolph Almasy (ralmasy@wvu.edu), Associate Dean for Development, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences.
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