Word: professorship
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...gift has been four embattled years in the making. In 1997, Kramer offered Yale a gift of about $5 million to fund a professorship in gay studies. The school balked, saying it would be unable to sustain such a position for financial reasons...
LaFrance said that originally, Kramer wanted to endow a professorship strictly for gay studies, excluding lesbian and other queer studies from the gift...
LaFrance said she felt that having only one permanent professorship in a field can cause a single voice to dominate the campus-a detriment in an emerging field like queer studies. Instead, she said Yale would continue to fund a semi-yearly fellowship in gay and lesbian studies...
...jury supported Awerbuch-Friedlander on her charge of gender discrimination for the assistant professorship and retaliation by the University. However the judge overturned the jury's decision, and found the defendant not guilty on all counts...
...prize, endowed by Ward Nicolas Boylston in honor of his uncle, Nicolas Boylston, who established the Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory in 1772, provides Harvard students with the opportunity to develop and display their talent in rhetoric...