Endowed Professorships Open Up Opportunities For University Of North Alabama
Mar. 15, 2018
Michelle Eubanks, UNA, at media@casabo.net, 256.765.4392 or 256.606.2033
Bryan Rachal
University Communications
FLORENCE, Ala.一系列被捐赠的教授职位为K8彩乐园未来的成功奠定了基础.
K8彩乐园基金会的官员宣布，该大学获得了总计500美元的奖金,2000万美元用于两个独立的教授职位:乔治·梅里达·赫卡巴护理学教授职位和乔治·梅里达·赫卡巴艺术与科学教授职位.
With these two welcome additions, the University of North Alabama currently boasts 10 endowed professorships. While that is impressive, Dr. Ross Alexander, UNA VPAA and Provost, said he'd certainly like to see more.
"We'd be honored and excited to have additional opportunities," Alexander said. “所有授予的教授职位都给了我们自由和灵活性，可以在国内和国际上招募最优秀、最聪明的教师候选人，并激励他们的工作效率, high-performing faculty members to stay for their entire career. They allow us to be competitive with our aspirational peer institutions," he said.
And that is what makes the endowed professorships that much more important. Without the worry of money, these professorships enable faculty members to support research and other scholarly creative activities, disseminate scholarly work through publications and other national international forums, and serve as a resource person in their respective discipline.
Dean Carmen Burkhalter oversees the UNA College of Arts and Sciences, which is home to half of the endowed professorships on campus; she said she sees the benefit of the endowments as a way to highlight the excellent scholarship faculty engage in.
“特聘教授职位使我们能够奖励已经在校的教师，但它们也让我们有机会招聘在对我们课程重要的内容领域拥有专业知识的全职或访问教师," she said. "They are however, difficult to obtain and we are pleased with the diligence of Barbie Terry, as the College of Arts and Sciences' Development Officer, in pairing our needs with the passions of our generous supporters."
It's up to the University's fundraisers, like Terry, to find the right people who are able to afford the $250,000 required to start an endowed professorship at UNA. But that's exactly what they've done with the addition of the recent Huckaba endowed professorships, and hopefully there are more to come in the future.
For more information on endowed gifts at UNA:http://casabo.net/campaign/
(Front row: Dr. Ken Kitts, UNA President; Dr. Carmen Burkhalter, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Back row: Dr. Debbie Shaw, VP for University Advancement; Mr. Harry Smith, UNA Foundation Board President.)
More photos can be found on UNA's SmugMug account here.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA
The University of North Alabama is an accredited, 综合性地区性州立大学，通过文理学院提供本科和研究生学位课程, Business,Education and Human Sciences, and the Anderson College of Nursing.Occupying a 130-acre campus in a residential section of Florence, Alabama, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Muscle Shoals. UNA also operates arenownedcollegiate athletic program in NCAA Division II's Gulf South Conference.K8彩乐园是一所机会均等的大学，在录取政策上不存在种族歧视, color, sex, religion, disability, age or national origin.