Professorships

The centre has a core team of 29 professorships from seven departments and the aim is to increase to 100 professorships in the near future.

Monteith became its first President and held seven of the professorships, and Richard was Vice President and held the other six professorships.

Nelson Mandela University’s Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy has bestowed four honorary and adjunct professorships as part of its expansion.

His previous gifts to Duke Divinity include an additional $4 million for professorships, student scholarships and the Duke Divinity School Annual Fund.

In recent years, the Koch Foundation has emerged as one of U.S. academia’s biggest private patrons, spending $200 million on business programs, professorships and conferences.

They gave us the kind of excellence you deserve in teaching, with named professorships that attract and keep our brilliant faculty, and with exciting new programs like the Law Advocacy Center and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Community Development.

The foundation says its mission “is to support the academic programs of the university like student scholarships or professorships.

According to the constitution of 1809, only "native Swedish men" could be appointed to higher civil servant positions, including professorships.

Although he was often months behind in his correspondence, Wilberforce responded to numerous requests for advice or for help in obtaining professorships, military promotions and livings for clergymen, or for the reprieve of death sentences.

He claimed that Jews might exert a negative influence, but he advised the Tsar to allow them to occupy influential positions such as university professorships.

He held visiting professorships at the University of Michigan in 1931, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1935.