Professorships

To establish an endowed Faculty Term Professorship, a minimum gift commitment of $250,000 is required.  The primary purpose of the endowment is to help retain James Madison's best mid-career faculty with recognition, a salary supplement and research/teaching support.  Those recognized may be positioned for a full professorship at the conclusion of their term professorship.  The term professorship will then benefit another recipient.  The endowment may be restricted to support a professor of a particular academic discipline or may be offered by the donor to the head of a particular academic department for use.  In either case, the University is responsible for selecting the recipient of the Professorship.

 

Listed below are those Academic Disciplines (by College) in which the University has the highest priority need for Professorships:

 

College of Arts and Letters

•  Visiting Professor of Music…a guest performer, conductor, composer or scholar of international reputation.

•  Professor of Humanities…to provide an interdisciplinary focus around English, Philosophy, Religion, Literature, History, etc.

•  Visiting Professor of Creative Writing…a writer of international reputation who would spend a limited term with us in either the Department of English, the School of Theatre and Dance, or the School of Media Arts and Design

•  Visiting Professor of Law and Society…limited term with a focus on pre-law students.

 

College of Business

•  Professor of Accounting

•  Professor of Computer Information Systems

•  Professor of Economics

•  Professor of Finance

•  Professor of Hospitality and Tourism Management

•  Professor of International Business

•  Professor of Management (Human Resources and Entrepreneurship)

•  Professor of Marketing

 

College of Education

•  Professor of Exercise Science (to develop the scholarly activities of Kinesiology)

 

College of Integrated Science and Technology

•  Professor of Telecommunications

•  Professor of Communication Science and Disorders Research

•  Professor of Biotechnology

•  Professor of Data Visualization (analysis and representation of complex databases in user friendly forms--has education as well as industrial implications/use.)

•  Professor of Materials Science (including instrumentation and sensing)

•  Professor of Information Systems/Knowledge Systems

•  Professor of Network Engineering

•  Professor of Bio Informatics/Health Administration

 

College of Science and Mathematics

•  Professor of Biomaterials

•  Professor of Mathematics Education

•  Professor of Geochemistry

•  Professor of Computational Science

 

General Education

•  Professor of Humanities

•  Professor of Liberal Arts