Congratulations to Rachel Harper ’94 who was recently awarded a William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence at the University of Missouri (MU). Harper serves as the Director of the MU Writing Center, Coordinator of the Honors Humanities Sequence, and a faculty member in the MU Honors College.
Kemper Fellowships are awarded to five outstanding teachers at the University of Missouri each year. Nancy West, director of the MU Honors College, shared, “Through (Harper’s) work, students and faculty have learned about the values of different cultures, about what goes into making works of art, about how history is made. She has helped preserve the great accomplishments of the past — and thus has helped those around her understand the world they live in and given them tools to imagine the future.”
Harper earned bachelor’s degrees in English and Spanish from Illinois Wesleyan University, and she holds master’s and doctoral degrees in American literature from the University of Missouri. A full press release is available through MU’s News Bureau.
nnual All In For Wesleyan. More than 1,800 gifts of all sizes from 49 states and 17 countries totaled over $500,000 in support of Illinois Wesleyan University and our students. Our collective philanthropy served as an inspiration to the next generation as All In For Wesleyan firmly established itself as an Illinois Wesleyan tradition, both on campus and off. The class of 1994 had 14 donors on April 9th and donations totaling $4,535.00.
of the total cost of an IWU education, it’s a fitting time to draw attention to the fact that outside support from alumni and friends of the University plays a key role in delivering the kind of educational experience we expect from our alma mater.