Achievements include the endowment of 16 professorships, thus tripling the School's number of
named faculty chairs, and earmarking more than $ 11 million in gifts for financial aid.
Not exact matches
Working with development personnel and
faculty, he is raising endowments for
chairs in Lutheran studies, evangelical studies and Christian ethics, as well as for the Center for Religion and Society (the
name was changed so as to include the Jewish studies program for which the college received a major ongoing grant).
He has also been
named the Helen M. Ranney Endowed
Chair, the school's first faculty - funded endowed chair, founded in 1991 in honor of the department's second c
Chair, the school's first
faculty - funded endowed
chair, founded in 1991 in honor of the department's second c
chair, founded in 1991 in honor of the department's second
chairchair.
She joined St. Jude as a
faculty member in 1988, and in 2003 was
named chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
Fonda's $ 12.5 million gift includes $ 2.5 million for the creation of an endowed
faculty chair to be
named for renowned psychologist Carol Gilligan on her departure from the Harvard
faculty, which will be in June 2002.
The
naming of Schwartz to this position represents a departure from the original terms of the professorship which did not include the Ed School as one of the
faculties from which the
chair could be appointed.
The
chair will be renamed for Professor Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot upon her retirement from the
faculty, making it the first professorship in Harvard's history to be
named for an African - American woman.
She also served as a higher education
faculty member and department
chair before being
named dean in 2008.