We must increase financial support for scholarships and graduate fellowships in order to provide the opportunity for many promising students to realize their full potential. One of the many reasons for this ranking has to do with our outstanding faculty, who are in every sense a community of scholars. Among the special honors and awards they have received are the White House-sponsored Presidential Young Investigator Awards, Fulbright awards to work abroad in numerous fields, memberships in the National Academy of Sciences, the country's most distinguished scientific academy, as well as the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Engineering. The presence of such accomplished faculty provides not just distinction to our University, but also scholarship of importance and originality. Endowed chairs and professorships provide not only the financial support and prestige to secure outstanding professors at the height of their careers, but help advance a particular course of study or research in which donors may have a personal interest.
Excellence breeds excellence.
Outstanding faculty will attract not only additional corporate and federal funds, but promising students and other accomplished scholars in a continuing upward spiral of excellence. If you are interested in making a pledge to one of the following Endowed Funds for Excellence click on the Description to view the form. Select 'Options'.'Load to Disk' and click on the description to download the form to your computer.