Advance academic excellence with Endowed Chairs and Professorships at the YSU Foundation
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Endowed chairs and professorships represent the highest accolade that a university can bestow upon a faculty member.
Funded endowments promote individual and collaborative faculty research endeavors that frequently result in groundbreaking findings that advance their respective fields of study. In total, there are eighteen endowed chairs and professorships at YSU across a range of disciplines. YSU faculty are expanding research in academic areas, including Accounting and Finance, Actuarial Science, Economics, Engineering, English, Gerontology, Long-Term Care, Judaic and Holocaust Studies, and History.
By establishing an Endowed Chair or Professorship at the YSU Foundation, you are propelling YSU’s values of advancing academic excellence in teaching and research. For endowed faculty opportunities, contact 330-941-3211 or ysuf@ysufoundation.org.
Endowed Chairs
(Gift of $1.5 million or more, provides approximately $60,000 annual funding)
John S. & Doris M. Andrews
Chair in Accounting
Established in 2001
Paul J. Thomas
Chair in Economics
Established in 2018
Warren Young
Chair in Astronomy
Established 2020
Morris & Phyllis Friedman
Chair in Engineering
Established in 2014
Eynon Beyer
Chair in Metallurgy
Established in 1977
Charles Darling
Chair in American Social History
Established 2018
James P. Tressel
Chair in Leadership
Established 2021
Endowed Professorships
(Gift of $500,000 or more, provides approximately $20,000 annual funding)
Mr. & Mrs. William B. Clayman
Professorship in Judaic & Holocaust Studies
Established in 2003
Grace Ruth
Professorship in English
Established in 2018
Professor of Islamic Studies
Established in 1995
Robert W. Reeder I
Professorship in History
Established in 2018
Medical Mutual of Ohio
Professorship in Actuarial Science
Established in 2018
Lariccia Family
Professorships in Business
(Three Professorships)
Established in 2016
Patricia McGovern Sweeney
Professorship in Nursing
Established in 2021