Big Plans: Inspired Teachers, Gifted Scholars

Portland State attracts a special kind of individual to its faculty—entrepreneurial, proactive, filled with a mission not just to do research, but also to teach. Endowments for chairs and professorships help to recruit and retain a faculty of excellence that provides leadership to the University's teaching and research agendas.

Distinguished Chair

Provides salary supplement, teaching and research support for an eminent scholar.

Minimum

$2,500,000 to $4,000,000

Annual Yield*

$100,000 to $160,000

Chair

Provides teaching and research support for an outstanding scholar.

Minimum

$1,500,000

Annual Yield*

$60,000

Professorship

Provides supplemental teaching or research support for an outstanding scholar.

Minimum

$500,000

Annual Yield*

$20,000

*A mature, fully funded endowment as of July, 2003 at the current spend rate of 4% would produce the annual yields listed above.

Meet some of PSU's gifted scholars and inspired teachers:

• Ames Professor in the Management of Innovation and Technology
• Arthur M. James Professor in Structural Engineering