Professorship
UVM has a world-class faculty. To sustain an outstanding faculty, the University needs to improve its support for the most creative and productive professors now on staff and boost its attractiveness to the sought-after individuals it seeks to recruit. Named professorships are the best way to achieve that aim.

For UVM faculty members, named professorships are a singular honor, unmatched in prestige. The resources that come with such chairs, moreover, provide a professional flexibility prized by every holder. For UVM, chairs are a way to reward its best teacher-researchers and to attract top new faculty. They also strengthen the University's financial foundations, adding significantly to an endowment that is modest compared to those of other leading universities.

Not surprisingly, UVM sees those who give chairs as among its most important benefactors. But what do such gifts mean to those who make them? Creating a chair can be an enormously rewarding step, but it also a high individual one. Every donor or donating organization shares the goal of helping UVM remain at the leading edge of excellence. Beyond that, many kinds of factors can weigh in the equation. Among them:

Building closer and more personal ties with UVM...supporting excellence in teaching...strengthening a particular field or department...contributing to scientific or medical progress...honoring a family member, colleague, or teacher...or, for a company, heightening awareness of your firm among UVM's students and faculty.

From a practical standpoint, donating a chair is simple. UVM can supply guidelines on such issues as the types of stipulations that are appropriate. But you may wish for other types of guidance, too. We can help you get in touch with a department chairman or dean, a past donor, and others who can act as a sounding board or source of counsel.

For most donors, giving a chair is the philanthropic act of a lifetime. UVM stands ready to help if you wish to explore making such a gift.