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Advancing
Excellence: Professorships and Faculty Support Funds
Committed
teacher/scholars are core to Barnard's educational mission.
In their direct, close interactions with students, Barnard
faculty members embody the ideal of the caring, passionate
teacher combined with the world-class scholar, communicating
their own intellectual enthusiasm and rigorous scholarship.
But Barnard professors must do more with less. The dedicated
Barnard faculty, which comprises fewer tenured professors
than the faculty of peer colleges, must teach more courses
and rival their peers in the quality of their scholarship
and pedagogy. Barnard's dynamic professors deserve more funding
at every stage of their development, from junior to senior
faculty ranks.
Leadership
donors can make a significant impact on the continued success
of Barnard professors by establishing a faculty support fund,
which helps underwrite research leaves, fund start-up costs
associated with new faculty appointments, and offset the research
and travel costs of professors' ongoing scholarship. Download this document (pdf) for more information about establishing a faculty
support fund at Barnard.
Endowed,
named professorships—or chairs—are an exceptional
way to recognize outstanding teacher/scholars who are institutional
leaders, and to reaffirm the excellence and ideals of the
Barnard faculty as a whole. They reward the individual achievement
of a gifted faculty member and help the College to recruit
a new generation of faculty inspired to attain similar status.
They also attract internationally recognized, tenured teacher/scholar
"stars" to the faculty ranks. Download this document (pdf) for more information about establishing a professorship
at Barnard.
These
are just a few of the key areas in which leadership donors
can make a difference in the educational process at Barnard.
For more information about making a leadership gift, please
contact the Office of Major Gifts by calling 212-854-2001,
or email development@barnard.edu.
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