EMERGING SCHOLARS
When you contribute $1 million or more to create a named and endowed professorship for an emerging scholar, the University will amplify your gift with a 50-cent match on every dollar.
MID-CAREER SCHOLARS
When you contribute $2 million or more to create an endowed professorship for a mid-career scholar, the University will amplify your gift with a 50-cent match on every dollar.
DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS
When you contribute $3 million or more to create an endowed professorship for a distinguished scholar and pay the total within five years, the University will provide $2 million in matching funds.
The terms above describe the University’s current matching policy; all matching funds are subject to availability.
Endowed professorships enable UVA to recruit the most dynamic and distinguished faculty, driving research and collaboration at the University. These positions are an honor to hold and an enduring tribute to their establishing donor.
The Bicentennial Professors Fund was established by the Board of Visitors in December 2017 to help the University attract the next generation of top faculty. Eventually, the fund is expected to support nearly 150 endowed professorships, making it a powerful tool for building and sustaining the University’s faculty far into the future.
Outstanding faculty receive crucial support for their research and scholarship, thanks to gifts to create endowed professorships. Bicentennial professorships will promote innovation and confirm a scholar’s standing among peers, both within UVA and throughout the academic world.
An expert in business strategy, ethics, leadership, and entrepreneurship, Fairchild specializes in underserved, overlooked markets. MBA-focused news publication Poets & Quants named Fairchild its 2018 MBA Professor of the Year. His research, which centers on financial risks and the impact of community development financial institutions, is supported by the Isidore Horween Research Professorship, created by Ralph Horween and Frederick Stow (Darden ’58).
Professor Spaar held the 2016-2018 Horace W. Goldsmith National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professorship, which supported her teaching and creative endeavors. A distinguished poet and beloved English and creative writing professor, she is the author of many collections of poetry and was one of three finalists for the 2016 Robert Cherry Award for Great Teaching at Baylor University and the winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize.
In addition to serving as associate dean for graduate programs at the McIntire School of Commerce, Maxham teaches global immersion courses and conducts research examining quantitative models that link customer analytics to financial performance. The William Stamps Farish Professorship, created in 1982, helps fund Maxham’s studies in entrepreneurship. An expert in marketing, his research has appeared in leading marketing journals and his work has been profiled in BusinessWeek, Forbes, the Washington Post, NBC, and other media outlets.
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