Endowed Faculty Support:
Sustaining World-Class Scholars and Teachers
Establishing a faculty endowment at the University of Nevada, Reno creates a legacy with the power to change lives. When you create an endowment, you build a permanent resource that makes a difference now and for generations to come.
About Endowments
An endowment is a permanent fund established for a specific purpose. You may designate the fund in your own name, as a tribute to a friend or loved one, or to honor a professor or mentor. You can establish an endowment with cash, securities, real estate, or through a bequest. The choice is up to you. Gifts to endowments are invested to create a lasting resource that grows in perpetuity.
Endowed funds are the bulwark for everything the University must do: recruit the best students and faculty, generate trailblazing research, and work for a better world. By generating a steady stream of income while leaving the principal untouched, endowment earnings make it possible for the University to respond to unforeseen opportunities and weather the ebb and flow of state funding, tuition income, and federal government grant making. Whatever your interest in supporting faculty and academic programs, there is most likely an area on campus that can benefit through a faculty endowment:
Types of Endowments
General
Earnings from the general endowment of the University provide a solid foundation and assure an annual income that benefits scholarships, professorships, research funds, book funds, and other designations. Gifts of any size can be made to the University's general endowment Student Scholarships Endowed scholarships make a difference in the University's ability to attract and retain the best and brightest students, many of whom without financial aid would be unable to pursue their educational goals. The minimum gift to establish an endowed scholarship is $10,000; however, existing endowed scholarships accept gifts from anyone who would like to support deserving students.
Graduate Fellowships
The strength of the University's graduate programs is reflected by the number that are nationally ranked in their fields. Graduate students play a critical role in fulfilling the University of Nevada, Reno's instructional and research missions. Endowed graduate fellowships can provide tuition, books, and research and living expenses, helping the University to attract outstanding students from across the United States and beyond. Fellowship support is often a deciding factor for students in determining where they will pursue their graduate studies. The minimum gift is $10,000.
Dean's Chair
A dean's chair will provide a holder of the deanship with the resources necessary to continue and further the college's contributions to teaching, research, and public service. Fund will be used for such purposes as salary supplements, graduate assistant stipends, administrative assistance, travel expenses, and other college requirements. The minimum gift is $5,000,000.
Chair
A chair will provide a distinguished scholar the opportunity to advance his/her research, teaching, and public service through salary supplement and program support. The minimum gift is $2,500,000.
Distinguished Professorship
This professorship is intended to supplement salary and research expenses for distinguished scholars with significant research qualifications and research projects. The minimum gift is $1,000,000.
Professorship
A professorship recognizes and supports the teaching, research, and service activities of distinguished teaching scholars whose research is emerging.
The minimum gift is $500,000.
Distinguished Visiting Scholar
The distinguished scholar endowment is intended to fund a visiting eminent scholar. The minimum gift is $300,000.