Endowed Chairs and Professorships enable the Eberly College to attract and retain outstanding scholars who make a board impact not only within their discipline but also throughout the university. Faculty on such special appointments have teaching and research responsibilities.
The College is especially eager to secure funds for a professorship in Civil War Studies.
This special type of faculty member:
- Serves as an academic magnet
- Facilitates the hiring of additional outstanding faculty
- Inspires the work of faculty already in residence
- Recruits academically gifted high school students in addition to outstanding college graduate students
- Increases the college's reputation in the highly competitive market of research grants
- Influences the lives of WVU students
By endowing a Chair or Professorship, donors will be investing in the College's future as well as in the present. As part of the endowment, the benefactor's name will forever be associated with the Eberly College and its academic tradition of excellence. The principal of the endowment remains untouched, ensuring the existence of the named endowment in perpetuity.
Endowed Academic Chair:
- Principal investment of $1,000,000
- Supports one of the highest honors that can be accorded to faculty members in an academic institution
- In tribute, each endowed academic chair will be named in honor of its donor
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- A Distinguished Professorship requires a principal investment of $500,000
- A Professorship requires a principal investment of $350,000
- In tribute, each endowed academic professorship will be named in honor of its donor
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