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9tours such as our Tour of the Ports of Europe. I hope thatDennis’ international study endowed scholarship will beone of many that will ensure that more ODU students getto have an international experience. Finally, $50,000 ofthe McLaughlin gift went to endow the McLaughlinFaculty Fellow. Remember Good to Great – Jim Collinssays you must get the best people on the bus. I’ll talk moreabout that later. But keeping them on the bus is one of thebiggest challenges in colleges like ours today. Businessand Public Administration faculty are in great demand. Toretain faculty, last year we created an accounting facultyfellow endowment, to which many of Hampton Roads’accounting firms have contributed. The McLaughlinfellow will be competitive for any tenure track facultymember in the CBPA. The fellowship endowments will beat the $250,000 level. I am very pleased to announce thatin addition to the seed money for an accounting andMcLaughlin Fellow, the college also received $500,000from the Education Foundation as a matching gift to createtwo Haislip-Rorrer Faculty Fellows. These Fellows willbe named and each will receive annual salary supplementsof about $10,000. This Fall, the CBPA Promotion andTenure Committee will accept nominations for these twoFellows. The Fellowships are for three years and may berenewed. It is my hope to continue to find donors so thatwe may create many more of these and that these programswill help us to keep our most accomplished facultymembers.• The ODU Education Foundation, in matching gifts to theuniversity by Wally Haislip, alumnus and former SeniorVice President Finance and Operations for Scientific