F A C U LT Y
Close student-faculty interaction is key to the student
experience and the University of Virginiaʼs
longstanding reputation for undergraduate
excellence. Thomas Jefferson recognized
needed for these individuals to be outstanding teachers
and distinguished researchers. New professorships
and faculty support are priorities across the
University and its schools. Support is
that the fortunes of the University
especially important for professors who
would depend on a quality faculty.
cross disciplinary lines in their teaching
Today, the ability to realize our
and research. The University is also
aspirations depends on developing a
seeking to diversify its faculty by hiring or
comprehensive and creative plan to attract
bringing visiting professors to Grounds who
and retain the best faculty and to provide the support
come from a variety of backgrounds.
PRIORITIES
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
Endowed professorships have a direct bearing on U.Va.ʼs
effectiveness in attracting and retaining outstanding faculty.
With its prestige and financial rewards, an endowed chair
is a highly coveted honor for a professor. More than any
other honor, it attests to a scholarʼs standing among peers,
both within the University and beyond. Each of the
Universityʼs schools must strengthen its ability to offer
endowed positions to prospective and existing faculty.
U.Va. also seeks endowed professorships for faculty who
work across disciplines
and for scholars whose
work advances
understanding of
multicultural and diversity
issues.
ENDOWED
LECTURESHIPS
The University seeks
funds to bring noted
speakers to the Grounds,
thereby enriching
academic discourse and
bringing new perspectives
to students, faculty, and
the larger community.
Endowed lectureships can be named by the donor, and
may be designated for any school, department, or
program.
FACULTY FUNDS FOR EXCELLENCE,
RESEARCH, AND TRAVEL
Faculty funds for excellence allow schools to nurture
faculty research and create new courses. Named research
funds support faculty engaged in humanities scholarship or
in the research needed for
discoveries in the hard and
social sciences, including
medicine and engineering.
Travel funds enable faculty
to conduct on-site research
at archives and locations
across the globe. This type
of support—whether from a
fund for faculty excellence
or a research or travel
fund—is vital for professors
to fulfill their simultaneous
roles as scholars,
researchers, and teachers.
FRANK BATTEN SCHOOL OF
LEADERSHIP AND PUBLIC POLICY
SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
Support recruitment and retention.
To attract and retain the most outstanding students and
faculty, the Architecture School seeks funding to add
endowed chairs and a visiting scholars endowment. Gift
opportunities also include multidisciplinary professorships
that will elevate the schoolʼs research in important areas,
such as health, infrastructure, cultural preservation, and
sustainability.
COLLEGE AND GRADUATE SCHOOL
OF ARTS & SCIENCES
Provide critical funding for faculty support and growth.
The finest faculty, properly compensated and supported, is
the key to sustaining the Collegeʼs historical strengths,
building its future, and maintaining the Universityʼs
longstanding reputation for undergraduate excellence. The
College is entering a multiyear period of intense recruiting.
Attracting the best faculty requires additional resources
for: new endowed professorships; Discovery
Professorships (rotate among faculty members on threeyear terms); the Legacy of Distinction Fund (supports
“bridge hire” overlaps for key retirements); and funding
packages to equip laboratories and support research by
top science faculty in emerging fields of study. Support for
faculty is the deanʼs top priority.
Support recruitment and create professorships.
Batten faculty are committed to teaching rigorous
analytical skills; understanding political, social, and
economic context; and applying leadership best practices
to initiate change. Batten faculty members contribute to
both the academy and ongoing policy debates through a
range of research areas, including advocacy, interracial
interactions, refugee displacement, health care cost
control, the impact of No Child Left Behind, and the
science of judgment and decision-making. To attract
interdisciplinary scholars and grow the schoolʼs capacity to
address crucial issues, the Batten School requires
additional resources to compete as a public institution in a
highly competitive market.
SCHOOL OF CONTINUING AND
PROFESSIONAL STUDIES
Reach new audiences.
SCPS plans to increase its part-time undergraduate
Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies enrollment by fifty
students (twenty-five full-time equivalents) each year over
the next four years. The program will continue to grow in
its existing locations in Charlottesville, Northern Virginia,
and Tidewater, and a new cohort will be launched in the
Greater Richmond area beginning in the fall of 2012.
Private funding for new faculty hires and faculty
development will support this expansion of service to the
Commonwealth. Faculty support through endowed
professorships, teaching stipends, and travel funds will
enhance the faculty-student interaction characteristic of
the U.Va. undergraduate experience.
CURRY SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Create and sustain endowed positions.
New endowed positions will ensure Curryʼs national
stature continues to rise. A professorship in multicultural
education will help improve practice related to equity
issues, intergroup relations, and academic achievement in
all schools. Creating a professorship of early childhood
education will anchor the new degree program in this area
HEART
OF
and attract other top-notch researchers. Additional funding
is sought for endowed chairs for an associate dean of
research, the Sheila J. Johnson Center academic director,
the Youth-Nex director, and the Center for Education
Policy and Workforce Competitiveness director (a joint
venture with the Batten School).
THE
DARDEN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Support recruitment, retention, and faculty research.
Darden faculty members are accomplished thinkers and
educators who stretch the thinking of Darden students and
shape them into the business leaders of tomorrow.
Philanthropic gifts provide endowed professorships,
fellowships, and executive chairs—powerful tools to recruit
and retain world-class professors. Increased faculty funds
will enable Dardenʼs thought leaders to transform business
GROUNDS
practices around the globe. Through Dardenʼs nine
academic areas and eight research centers, the school
can successfully bridge the gap between theory and
practice, extend and strengthen its partnerships with
industry, and bring the most leading-edge information into
the classroom.
SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND
APPLIED SCIENCE (SEAS)
Support recruitment and retention.
In the coming years, SEAS is redoubling its efforts to
recruit and retain a diverse and talented faculty who
pursue applications-oriented research that leverages the
schoolʼs existing and emerging strengths. With a goal of
building faculty excellence in the coming years, the school
needs funding—including endowed professorships and
startup packages—to attract the best new faculty as well
as to hire the staff to support them. Funding will also spur
greater innovation and research collaboration among
faculty and students within SEAS and across the
University.
LAW SCHOOL
Support recruitment and retention;
fund research, service, and innovation.
The Law School must keep pace with the recent increase
in competition among law schools for the most talented
teachers and researchers. The school seeks support for
endowed professorships that will enable it to attract and
retain a new generation of professors. In addition, the Law
School continues to allocate funds to faculty for research,
clinics, course development, and joint projects with other
faculty and schools of the University. Faculty support also
helps the school maintain a low faculty-student ratio.
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LIBRARY
Fund additions to the collections.
Strong library collections and services are critical for
research and aid in teaching; thus, they are an important
draw for faculty members who are leaders in their fields.
As curricula expand and new programs are added, the
University Library must reinforce and complement efforts
in the classroom. Just as strengths in American history
and literature are supported by the outstanding McGregor
and Barrett collections, so too must U.Va. build its
collections in areas of increasing interest and importance
to faculty and students, such as science and global
studies.
MCINTIRE SCHOOL OF COMMERCE
Support professorships and fellowships.
McIntire is raising significant new funds to ensure its
faculty members have the resources necessary to
continue building critical educational capital. The schoolʼs
goals include creating faculty fellowships, emerging
scholar professorships, and eminent scholar
professorships.
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Support recruitment and retention.
The School of Medicine seeks funding for endowed
professorships to recruit and retain outstanding faculty.
Endowed chairs help the school compete with other
universities for exceptional faculty and recognize and
reward professors who are research or teaching leaders.
The need for faculty support is particularly acute given the
growing shortages of physicians nationwide and the
intense competition to attract leaders in specific medical
fields. Increased funding for graduate students—who work
side by side with faculty in research and teaching—as well
as unrestricted funds will also help attract the best faculty
and physicians to come to U.Va.
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Help recruit and retain the best faculty.
The School of Nursing seeks funding for endowed
professorships, start-up packages, and research and
travel support to recruit and retain outstanding faculty. This
need is particularly acute in the School of Nursing,
reflecting national trends. A large cohort of senior nursing
faculty will retire within the next two academic years.
Simultaneously, there is a national nursing faculty
shortage due to a wave of retirements across the United
States. In this extremely competitive market, support will
help the School of Nursing more effectively compete for
exceptional faculty and recognize and reward professors
who are leaders in their fields.
COLLEGE AT WISE
SELECTED GIFT OPPORTUNITIES
$5 million and above
Endow a deanship
Support recruitment and retention; create endowed
professorships.
The College at Wise seeks funds to increase the number of
endowed professorships. Creating endowed professorships
is a key component of retaining high-quality faculty. Support
is vital to provide sufficient professional development and
opportunities for growth, advancement, and competitive
salaries. Securing funds for training and orientation for
faculty, especially in early employment, and providing
mentoring opportunities will improve faculty retention.
$2 million and above
Endow a professorship (including interdisciplinary)
($3 million minimum in some cases)
$500,000 and above
Provide research funds
$100,000 and above
Name an endowed lectureship
$50,000 and above
Help bring a visiting professor or lecturer to U.Va. for one
year
$5,000 and above
Support faculty travel for research or a conference
For more information, contact the Office of Development
and Public Affairs at 434-924-7306 (toll-free: 800-688-9882).
GIFT CREATES
THE MARVIN ROSENBLUM
PROFESSORSHIP IN MATHEMATICS
In 1984, undergraduate Mendel Rosenblum (College ’84), left, quietly
revolutionized how University faculty, students, and staff would communicate
with one another by developing U.Va.’s first electronic mail—or “email”—
system. Now, Mr. Rosenblum and his wife, Diane Greene, have ushered in
another transformation that will greatly benefit the University. Honoring his
late father, and former mathematics department chair and professor, Marvin
Rosenblum, the couple gave $3 million to create the Marvin Rosenblum
Professorship in Mathematics at the College and Graduate School of Arts &
Sciences. The endowed professorship made it possible to attract Professor
Craig Huneke—who built the commutative algebra program at the University
of Kansas into one of the leading programs in the country—to the University.
As the Marvin Rosenblum Professor of Mathematics, he will now head the
math department at U.Va. and guide its growth.
HEART
OF
THE
GROUNDS
SHE STUDIES THE PAST,
BUT SHEʼS THE FUTURE AT U.VA.
Professor Elizabeth Varon, an expert on the Civil War, came to
U.Va. to work with leaders in her field who will soon
retire. In her words, these “legendary scholars” set
a standard of excellence that she aims to uphold.
The Legacy of Distinction Fund in the College
and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences pays
for “bridge hires” who overlap with retiring
colleagues. Your gift promotes the continuity
and high quality of the student experience.
STUDENTS AND FACULTY
ARE THE HEART
OF EVERYTHING WE DO.