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A chair that holds a department

An endowed professorship let one department recruit the scholar it had been chasing for six years.

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An Illinois Wesleyan professor working through a problem at the whiteboard with students

Endowed positions are not a line item. They are the difference between a search that succeeds and a search that runs a third year.

The chair funded here brought a scholar — and with the scholar, two new courses, a research seminar, and a pipeline of students into graduate work.