Friends and Partners
for the CCAC

HOW TO SUPPORT THE CENTER FOR CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND CIVILIZATIONS

Over the years the Center has received financial support from long time friends and now from a growing number of new friends.   We greatly appreciate this help and look forward to the continuing partnership that supports our projects and programs.   We are most grateful for the generous support that enables us to offer our unique and quality educational experiences to our students and for scholarship assistance that is given to them.     

Below are brief descriptions of our projects and programs.  If any of our activities interest you, we welcome your contributions and please feel free to make inquiries by contacting us.   

Contact information:
Farland Stanley Jr.
Director: The OU Center for Classical Archaeology and Civilizations
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma, 73019
(405) 325-7667
FAX (405) 325-7713

HOW TO HELP

All of the activities that the Center sponsors are part of its
 “Ancient STEP Programs” (Study, Travel, Excavate the Past).

            There are a number of projects, programs, and areas of support that a contributor may consider to support. 

• Archaeology Travel-Study Scholarships
• Student Expenses with the summer archaeology project
• Archaeology Field School Activities
• Campus Projects and Programs
• Lecture Series on Campus and abroad
• Sponsoring or assisting our excavation projects     

ARCHAEOLOGY TRAVEL-STUDY SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships include, but are not limited to, the following student scholarships.

“Ancient STEP Travel-Study Scholarship:” $500 to $1,000
“Archaeology Field School Scholarship;” $1,000 - $2000
“Student Mentor Scholarship:” $2000 and above.

The Center’s scholarships defray, in part or in whole, the expenses of students who participate in our Archaeology Field Schools. The scholarships have been very effective in helping students participate who may otherwise have missed the opportunity without the financial assistance these scholarships provide.

The ways that one may support us vary.   Contributors may wish to remain anonymous and have their scholarship issued in the name of one of the Center’s scholarships listed above.  Other donors prefer to establish scholarships in their own name or as a memorial scholarship.   Donors may also wish to give a single one-time scholarship, a number of one-time multiple scholarships, or they may wish to establish one or more annual scholarships.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

When the Center is active with it's archaeological field school, our activities include the following:   

• The excavation project
• Regular evening lectures (some that feature guest scholars)
• Study-tour excursion to visit ancient local sites and museums

CAMPUS PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS

A donor may be interested in supporting one or more of the “on campus” activities of the Center.  These include the following: 

• Our annual “Undergraduate Colloquium on Classical Antiquity”
• Our annual “OU Classical Antiquities Week”
• Our annual “Meet the Scholars Symposium”
• Our “Classical Archaeology Society” (a student organization)
• The Center’s  plans for a colloquia, symposia, and conferences
• On Campus lecture Series

LECTURE SERIES ON CAMPUS AND ABROAD

ON CAMPUS:     We currently have three very successful lecture series on the OU campus, “The Barnett Lectures on Classical Antiquity,” the Lectures provided from the Archaeological Institute of America through the Oklahoma chapter of the AIA and the “Avner Raban Memorial Lectures”.   Some donors may wish to help us to expand our campus lectures by establishing a new lecture series.

ABROAD:    A donor may also have an interest in supporting the lecture series that are associated with our Field Schools abroad.  One popular feature of the Field School’s evening lectures is the appearance of a prominent guest speaker who gives a set number of lectures.  These speakers are sponsored in the name of a donor and are open to the local communities and all interested parties. 

COLLOQUIUM:  The Center also has a strong interest in creating an international colloquium that will be part of the Center’s activities abroad.  A donor may have an interest in supporting one or more speakers for this project.   

SPONSORING OR ASSISTING OUR EXCAVATION PROJECTS

Some individuals may have an interest in supporting all or a part of our excavation projects abroad.

Archaeological expeditions are labor intensive enterprises and include a broad range of expenses for equipment, transportation, staff and specialists.  As an example of these varied expenses, they include the costs for vehicles (vans, bus, fuel), and staff support.  There is also the expense for essential excavation equipment such as surveying equipment, shovels, buckets, wheel-borrows, trowels, hoes, tent materials, hammers, axes, rope and string, wood, sheet metal, fence materials, nails, and large earth moving vehicles when needed.   There is also the expense of storage facilities, computers, and the expenses and materials needed for the preservation, storage and preservation of artifacts.

We again express our appreciation to all who have helped in the success of the Center’s programs and projects.  We look forward to your continuing help and we cordially invite others to be our partners in offering quality educational experiences to our students.

The Center is very grateful to all of the students and professors who have participated in our projects.  We also extend our appreciation for the help that we have received from the offices of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the offices of the President and Provost of the University of Oklahoma.