Undergraduate Students Funds

Undergraduate Fellows Program: In fall 2014 the department will launch the Political Science Research Fellows Program, which is part of our initiative to strengthen the methodological skills and training of undergraduate political science majors. The program is organized around the principles of individualized instruction and research collaboration between talented undergraduates, faculty, and advanced graduate students. Goals include strengthening research and analytic skills through immersion in the research process and the formation of close professional relationships with individual faculty. The Davidson Family Fund provides support for this fellows program.

 Davidson Family Fund: Contributions support attendance at conferences, visiting lectureships, publications, and undergraduate scholarships or graduate fellowships, stipends, or prizes. Note The Davidson Family Fund was created in 2003 by CU alumni Roger and Nancy Davidson to honor the memory of Henry W. Ehrmann and Curtis W. Martin, two of the department’s founding faculty members (1950s).

 Political Science Legacy Fund: Contributions to this newly endowed fund will provide support for activities such as sending teams of undergraduates to participate in Model EU or Model Congress, travel stipends for undergraduates doing research abroad for Honors Theses, seed grants to graduate students to engage in pre-dissertation field work, and helping build teams of faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates who are engaged in focused research projects. The Legacy Fund also helps provide startup funds for faculty exploring new and exciting streams of research.

 Jacob Van Ek Scholarship Fund: This fund, created in 1980, provides one scholarship each year to a high achieving political science undergraduate major in honor of Jacob Van Ek, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1929-1959.