The College of Humanities seeks endowment funds to provide increased financial support for deserving students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Although the value of humanities scholarship funds had doubled by the end of Campaign Arizona in July 2005, there is still substantial unmet need. The newest College-wide undergraduate scholarship initiative is a series of Cesar Chavez Scholarships for entering students that can be renewed yearly, as students make satisfactory academic progress. Funds are sought to support a third-year of this initiative. Graduate fellowship endowments and multi-year commitments are of particular importance because traditional humanities funding sources do not routinely provide support for graduate students like that available in the sciences and social sciences. Privately endowed fellowships are crucial to the College's ability to attract and retain exceptionally talented graduate students. In addition to fully endowed fellowships, one-year dissertation fellowships and other graduate scholarships are also priorities. Undergraduate Study Abroad Scholarships are especially sought to permit students in various humanities departments and programs to participate in the University's international programs around the world, including internships and apprenticeship programs. Other undergraduate scholarships may support the recruitment and retention of especially promising students of languages, literatures, and cultural studies-including students from underrepresented groups. Support is also sought to increase the University Writing Center endowment established by Luda and Donald Soldwedel to provide stipends for students working as peer consultants at the Writing Center , a learning center that serves the entire student population of the campus.

In order to strengthen the permanent financial resources of the departments and programs in the College of Humanities , endowment funds are sought for each department and program. Earned income from these endowments is used at the discretion of department heads and program directors, in consultation with faculty and staff, to provide financial support for a variety of activities that enhance the lives of the departments and programs.

This endowment will establish a permanent base of financial support to assist the ongoing work of several key partnership efforts with K-12 schools, community groups, and arts and humanities organizations.

Established in 1978, the Southern Arizona Writing Project was named an "exemplary affiliate" by the National Writing Project in 1995. For more than two decades, the Writing Project has been working to improve the teaching and learning of writing across the curriculum at all grade levels, with hundreds of teachers.

The Partnership Across Languages (PAL) is a K-16 coalition of Pima County educators and parents committed to improving language learning and teaching. Founded in 1994 and based in the College of Humanities , PAL was named a mentor project in the Modern Language Association's national "High School to College" articulation project in 1996.