Department of African American & African Studies
808 Social Science Building
267 19th Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-9847
E-mail: afroam@umn.edu

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Morrill Hill Bridge

Make a gift to the Department of African American & African Studies online through the University of Minnesota Foundation.

For more information on ways to give, contact:

Diane Walters

Diane R. Walters
CLA External Relations
220 Johnston Hall
101 Pleasant Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

E-mail: walte041@umn.edu
Phone: 612-625-4324

For other giving options, visit the U of M Foundation.

The Department of African American & African Studies will celebrate its 40th anniversary in 2009! To mark this historic occasion we are collaborating with a dynamic group of alumni and community members to plan several activities. To begin, the Morrill Hall 40th Anniversary Organizing and Planning Committee will conduct a two-day conference and gala dinner in January 2009, to:

  • commemorate the January 1969 Morrill Hall takeover that led to the formation of the department in the fall of 1969;
  • examine the current status of African American student recruitment, admission, retention, and graduation;
  • create strategies for advancing the University’s goal of becoming a top three public research institution–such a goal cannot be achieved without a strong commitment to the work done in publicly-engaged ethnic studies units.

In addition to the January conference and gala dinner, we are organizing “We Still Have a Charge to Keep,” a series of events to be held throughout 2009.

Please consider making a one-time gift or continuing donation to support the department. Gifts to the “The Legacy Continues” fund will help stage 40th anniversary events, such as commissioning and performing a play about the history and evolution of African American & African studies. Donations to the John S. Wright Scholarship Fund enable more students to travel and study abroad. We welcome any contribution, from $1 to $10,000,000. Your gift immediately helps us support cultural programming and events, build community outreach, establish student scholarships, and develop faculty research.