Word: professorship
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...gift was earmarked to fund an endowed professorship in Islamic religious studies at the Divinity School...
...also landed a post at the University of Chicago Law School, although he did not pursue a professorship, choosing to focus instead on politics—his first love...
...other family owners decided to create a charitable foundation. They put in $1.1 million, and Scheubeck encouraged the company's suppliers and business partners to make donations. With more than $1.4 million now in its coffers, the Scheubeck-Jansen Foundation has enough to fund its initial project: the first professorship in sensor technology at nearby Regensburg University of Applied Sciences. "We wanted to do something for the region, to set a cornerstone for a new industry cluster," says Scheubeck, 54, who chairs the foundation and serves as managing director of the family holding company...
Until recently, such generosity would have been unusual--unwanted even--in Germany. By tradition it was taxpayers, not foundations, who funded university chairs. But Germany is cutting back its spending on higher education, creating a need for charity. So far the technology position is the only privately funded professorship at the school. But at a rival university across town, charitable foundations are funding five professorships, and four more...
...challenge, because he and his wife were from Europe,” Thomas said. “And the honor of being offered a German professorship, where there is only one professor per discipline, is hard to turn down...