The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) has announced a $1 million gift from the Copernicus Cultural Foundation to establish an endowed professorship in the College of Fine Arts and Communication at the university. 

The gift will fund an endowed professorship in the Department of Music for cello and music education advocacy. The estate of Edmund Bukolt, who died in 1964, and his wife, Kathryn, previously created two scholarship endowments in the college, one in music and another in dance. In a separate gift, the foundation also funded a $50,000 endowment for music scholarships. 

“I’m thrilled for the college to have its first $1 million endowed professorship,” said College of Fine Arts dean Valerie Cisler. “We are grateful to the Bukolt family for their generous support over several decades. These new gifts will help more UWSP cello and music education students reach their goals and share their love of music as teachers across the state and beyond.” 

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