Enactment & Revisions

Enacted: 9/15/19

Policy Statement

Allocation and Review of Endowed Faculty Positions

I. Purpose of Endowed Faculty Positions

The purpose of endowed faculty positions (dean, chair, professorship, fellowship, named scholar) is to recruit and retain faculty with outstanding scholarly records who will provide scholarship and leadership that enriches and strengthens their department or program, the college, and the university.  They are distinguished faculty positions that represent prestige, leadership, renown, and broad responsibility to the department or program, college, university, and to their discipline.

Faculty who receive this honor must continue to perform as exemplary scholars, excellent colleagues, and faculty in whose accomplishments the university and donor can rightfully take pride.

See the provost’s “Guidelines for Endowed Faculty Positions” (effective January 1, 2018) for UO nomenclature and policies that must be followed.