Endowed funds provide crucial support for faculty research, creative work, and professional development—truly excellent teaching and scholarship requires active engagement with colleagues and academic societies around the world.
Finally, endowed funds improve our ability to offer competitive salaries and benefits and remain competitive—to attract exceptional individuals to our intellectual community.
Update: Thanks to the Broad Reach campaign, eight new faculty chairs have been endowed:
- The Kim M. Wentworth Chair in Environmental Sciences
- The Cody van Heerden Chair in Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences
- The McNally Family Chair in Philosophy and Human Ecology
- The Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman Chair in the Performing Arts
- The Emily and Mitchell Rales Chair in Ecology
- The Lalage and Steven Rales Chair in Chemistry
- The Andrew S. Griffiths Chair for the Dean of Administration
- The T.A. Cox Chair in Studio Arts