Endowed Chairs Policy April 2011
Curry School of Education
Policy for Endowed Chair
Selection, Appointment, and Review
Overview:
The Curry School of Education recognizes accomplishment of senior scholars through the awarding of chaired professorships, typically Endowed Chairs, although others may derive from the SCHEV Eminent Scholars Program. As per the Provost’s policy statement on Endowed Chairs
(http://www.virginia.edu/provost/docs_policies/Chairholder_Policy.html),
these prestigious honors are awarded to a University faculty member who has achieved the highest level of performance and recognition. The Curry School of Education policy for endowed and eminent chairs follows the policies and procedures outlined in the Provost’s policy.
Procedures
1) The Dean will appoint a five-member committee of chairholders in the Curry School, each of whom serves a three-year term. The Dean will appoint the Chair of this committee and the committee is responsible for reviewing all chair appointments.
Note: Beginning Spring 2010 the committee appointment terms will be three appointees for three-year terms and two appointees for two-year terms. Each appointment begins on January 1st and ends on December 31st of the term years. After the initial appointment of the committee, members will be replaced by staggered terms or as needed. See end of this policy for committee members.
2) The Committee will review nominees for all chairs that rotate and all new chairs. The nominations dossier should include:
a) Nomination letter,
b) Curriculum vitae, and
c) Three to five peer review letters from external distinguished colleagues.
In most cases, the current Dean will be the nominator; if the current Dean is the nominee, then someone other than the Dean is nominator.
3) Upon nomination, the Dean will ask the candidate to provide an updated curriculum vitae and a list of five potential external distinguished colleagues, who may be asked by the Dean’s Office to evaluate the nominee based on his/her CV. The clerical support for the Endowed Chair Committee will be provided by the Dean’s Office.
4) The Committee conducts its reviews and sends a report to the Dean, who makes the final decisions and recommendations to the Provost for final recommendation to the Board of Visitors.
Curry School Local Chair Guidelines
1) Each chair holder is provided $2,000 per year for support of his or her research efforts.
2) The Dean’s office establishes a project per qualifying chair holder to expend research support funds and informs the Budget Office of the new project number/s. Each such project must be dedicated/linked to the faculty member holding the chair and the name of the faculty member must appear on the applicable project/s. Each such project must have either an instructional or a research expenditure function code.
3) A chair holder must maintain full-time employment status at least one semester of the academic year to be eligible to receive research support. If granted half-time educational leave for an academic year they will remain eligible.
4) Unexpended budget balances at the end of the fiscal year will carry forward to the new year, provided the professor remains in the preceding chair.
5) Unliquidated encumbrances at the end of the fiscal year must be paid from the budget allocation for the subsequent year. If the chair holder vacates the chair with outstanding expenses, the department must cover the deficit.
6) Research support funds must be used before the chair holder vacates the chair. If a balance remains upon the vacancy, these funds will be returned to the funding office; LC funds to the Budget Office and ER funds to the Curry School Dean’s Office.
A. There is no distinction between rotating chairs, term chairs or perpetual chairs, with regard to the use of funds prior to vacating a chair. A chair holder must expend chair balances prior to vacating the chair or the funds will revert to the funding office. It is the chair holder’s responsibility to expend research support funds prior to vacating the chair.
B. EXCEPTION: Unexpended research support funds will remain available to retired professors for one year after retirement to support ongoing research projects. A retiring chair is strictly defined as a professor retiring from employment at the University while appointed to a chaired professorship.
7) Expenditure Limitations:
A. Funds allocated under this program may be used for wages but must not be used to support the salary of persons filling established faculty or classified positions.
B. Funds must be used solely in support of research.
C. The awards provided to chair holders may not be used to support purely social functions.
D. Equipment purchased from the research support funds remains the property of the University of Virginia.
8) If a professor holds more than one Chair, s/he is only entitled to the research support funds for ONE of the chairs.
Endowed Chair Committee as of Spring 2010:
Xitao Fan, Chair – 3-year term, ending 12/31/2013
Carolyn Callahan – 3-year term, ending 12/31/2013
Marcia Invernizzi – 3-year term, ending 12/31/2013
David Breneman – 2-year term, ending 12/31/2012
Luke Kelly – 2-year term, ending 12/31/2012
Endowed Chair Committee as of Spring 2011:
Luke Kelly, Chair – 2-year term, ending 12/31/2012
Carolyn Callahan – 3-year term, ending 12/31/2013
Marcia Invernizzi – 3-year term, ending 12/31/2013
David Breneman – 2-year term, ending 12/31/2012
Dewey Cornell – 3-year term, ending 12/31/2014