What Gifts Have Done in the Past

Private support has enabled the College of Nursing to provide a first-rate education for UI students, top-notch research that helps shape the nursing profession and health care as a whole, and crucial services to the state of Iowa. Here are just a few examples of how gifts have helped the college fulfill its mission:

• Alumni and friends of the college responded enthusiastically to the Centennial Campaign for Nursing Education, which celebrated the first century of nursing education at Iowa by securing crucial resources for the coming decades. More than $2 million was raised to support student scholarships and awards, renovation of the clinical practice/technology lab, the Sally Mathis Hartwig Professorship in Gerontological Nursing Research, the Center for Nursing Classification, and the unrestricted Nursing Centennial Excellence Fund.
• Mary Dunlap Smith of Columbia, Missouri, created a named scholarship in memory of her late mother, Ruth Frederick Dunlap, a 1921 graduate of the UI College of Nursing. The Ruth Frederick Dunlap Scholarship will provide one or more annual scholarships to undergraduate nursing students who demonstrate financial need. Smith, an Iowa City native and UI graduate, received her B.A. degree in sociology in 1949.
• Ron Rohling of Muscatine, Iowa, gave $100,000 to establish the Illeen M. Rohling Nursing Scholarship in memory of his sister. The gift will help UI nursing students seeking a traditional four-year undergraduate degree and those in the R.N.-B.S.N. bachelor degree completion program.
• An innovative estate gift from the late Alma Miller Ware, who earned a B.A. degree in psychology from the UI in 1952 and believed that nursing students should be well rounded in addition to well trained, established an annual visiting professorship to engage nursing students in the arts and humanities. Ware was a loyal contributor to the college for 40 years. She died in 1998.

These are just several examples of the generosity that has helped the College of Nursing provide a first-rate education for UI students and maintain its high program rankings.

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