T he widespread use of endowed-chair positions to recruit and retain faculty members has been well documented in academe. These prestigious appointments, highly valued by professors and institutions, ...

With an influx of new endowed professorships, RIT is retaining and attracting all-star faculty. Today, there are 51 endowed professorships at RIT. Thirteen of those have been established since 2017.

A growing number of engineering faculty have been able to expand research projects thanks to the college’s endowed professorships. An endowed professorship is one of the highest honors that the ...

Endowed Chairs and Professorships help us attract and retain outstanding faculty, enables them to pursue cutting-edge research, and supports students of all levels in their research groups. Jesse ...

In 1990, the University of Wyoming established its first endowed position, the Wold Chair. Today, the number of endowed ...

W hen a full professor retired two years ago, the department of urban and environmental policy at Occidental College was faced with a choice. The small, tight-knit department could hire a junior ...

When Linda Katehi was named dean of the Purdue Schools of Engineering in September, it was announced that she would hold a named chair as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering. Purdue alumnus and ...

Christopher Lewis and Drew Maywar, faculty members in RIT’s College of Engineering Technology (CET), have been named Russell C. MacCarthy Endowed Professors. Given to faculty to build academic and ...

Each endowed fund has a set of terms established by the donor to the fund and formally accepted by the College. Administration and use of the fund must be done in accordance with these terms. Copies ...

John Cumming, left, and Randall J Olson, MD, talk recently about the newly established Cumming Presidential Endowed Chair to honor Olson. John Cumming has seen firsthand how the John A. Moran Eye ...