Destined to Lead Document - Zayed University

Endowed Chairs
Establish ten endowed chairs, well-supported by resources for research, for
distinguished professors who will enliven the intellectual environment and stimulate
and produce significant research in the academic units to which they are assigned.
Description:
Virtually every leading university enjoys the benefits of endowed chairs. Endowed
positions relieve the institution of the obligation to commit money from its own
budget for the services of the professor. The endowed chair is an essentially cost-free
addition to the faculty and strengthens a university’s ability to attract outstanding
candidates, especially when the endowment underwrites the professor’s research
program. Capitalizing wisely on the donor’s largesse, a university can engage
professors who will enliven the intellectual environment of the institution and
stimulate the research productivity of the faculty.
Zayed University will gain immense power from the addition of endowed chairs.
Scholars who might never have considered working in the U.A.E. will respond to
the prospect of certain research funding. The University will be free to exercise its
most imaginative recruiting strategies in the knowledge that funding for the positions
is not dependent on unpredictable budgets. The very prestige of occupying an
endowed chair will give the University an extra edge in recruiting.
Distinguished professors occupying endowed chairs will significantly fortify
the University and will aid in projecting its intellectual worth globally. Every
extraordinary team has its stars. Professors holding endowed chairs will be the stars
of Zayed University’s remarkable faculty. They will signal the University’s fulfillment
of its destiny to lead.
Administrative Oversight: Deans, Office of Development
Annual Endowment Income: AED 8,000,000
Target Year: 2011
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