Faculty & Teaching Endowments
Great colleges have great faculty—like CLA's sociology professor Joel Samaha, who wins 100 percent positive student evaluations, and has inspired countless distinguished careers. Or the late professor Leo Hurwicz, whose mechanism design theory won him the Nobel Prize in Economics.
These scholars hardly stand alone in their excellence at CLA—our faculty receive Guggenheims, Pulitzers, Grammys, Peabodys, and MacArthur “genius awards.” They are Fulbright scholars, members of the National Academy of Science, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Meet three of them.
Catherine Squires
José-Víctor Ríos-Rull
Daniel SchroeterToday, competition for faculty of this high caliber is increasingly intense and played out in a global arena.
CLA needs endowed chairs and professorships to attract and retain preeminent teachers and scholars. It needs endowed research funds to support the work of faculty members and keep them on the leading edge of their fields.
Philanthropy plays an important role in keeping CLA faculty strong.