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Please consider supporting the geography program at UNO. Funds donated will be used to support undergraduate research, travel, and fees associated with the learning and study of Geography.

Charles Gildersleeve Geography Scholarship Fund

Charles Gildersleeve smiles at the camera.

If Chuck didn’t create the construct of being student-centered in all that we do as faculty, he certainly lived this notion with passion and professionalism each and every day. For many of us, he was a mentor, model, and inspiration.... John Christensen, 2009

This fund supports an annual scholarship for geography majors in memory of Dr. Charles Gildersleeve. Online donations can be made at the University of Nebraska Foundation site.

UNO Geography Fund for Excellence

This fund supports the teaching, research, and service missions of the geography program. Online donations can be made at the University of Nebraska Foundation site.

The University of Nebraska Foundation is a non-profit organization established by the Board of Regents that raises and manages private gifts for the college. If you have questions about establishing a new fund or scholarship, making long-range plans or giving through a different vehicle, please contact David Belieu.

David Belieu
College of Arts and Sciences
402.458.1180 direct
800.432.3216 toll-free
david.belieu@nufoundation.org

Gildersleeve honored as treasure

September 1st, 1964 marked the beginning of the extraordinary career of Charles“Chuck” Gildersleeve at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He brought to the UNO family, skills in business, regional planning, and geography; with particular expertise in urban, economic, and educational geography. More importantly, he brought with him a commitment to the teaching/learning process that was, and is, unparalleled. If Chuck didn’t create the construct of being student centered in all that we do as faculty, he certainly lived this notion with passion and professionalism each and every day. For many of us he was a mentor, model, and inspiration....

He once told me, “John, when you suit up for class, you can never prepare enough…you can never give enough to your students, but it’s the effort to obtain that unreachable goal that separates the good from the great.” What I know is, Chuck is one of the great ones. Simply said, he is a campus and community treasure and his story lives on with family, with each of us and his students, and the Gildersleeve way will endure.

Chancellor John Christensen, 2009

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