DISTINCTION TITLES

Endowed Chair

RESOURCES APM -191 Endowed Chairs & Professorships UCI Establishment and Search Procedures for Endowed Chairs

An endowed chair is a distinction awarded by the University to a scholar or teacher in recognition of both past and potential original contributions to the individual's academic discipline. In addition to the academic honor given to the individual, an endowed chair or professorship provides funding for support of his or her teaching, research, and service responsibilities, and is supported by payout from an endowment fund or annual allocation. Payout may also be used to support the base salary of the endowed chair or professorship, unless expressly prohibited by the donor or gift agreement.

An "administrative" endowed chair is intended to provide funds to the chairholder to advance the mission of the department, school, or research unit, and may be held simultaneously by the current dean, chair or director of an academic or research unit.

Current UCI Endowed Chairs

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Additional UCI Distinctions

Distinguished Professor
Chancellor's Professor
Chancellor's Fellow

General Description: All campus distinctions are awarded on the basis of merit. They may be conferred upon current faculty or as part of a recruitment offer. Campus distinctions may be accompanied by financial stipends, either provided by the University or by the School, subject to availability of funds and the particular distinction provided. Only one title may be held at a time by a single member of the faculty, including endowed positions and campus distinctions.

• Distinguished Professor: The Distinguished Professor title is the highest campus-level distinction and is reserved for senior faculty who have achieved the highest levels of scholarship over the course of their careers. Distinguished Professors will typically have earned national and international level distinctions and honors of the highest level. The total number of Distinguished Professors on the campus, excluding emeritus faculty, cannot exceed 2% of the filled faculty lines.
  
  

Current Distinguished Professors

• Chancellor's Professor: The Chancellor's Professor title is designed for persons who have earned the title of Professor and who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and whose continued promise for scholarly achievement is unusually high. Thus, Chancellor's Professors are faculty who have achieved acclaim for their accomplishments and who are highly likely to continue producing notable achievement in scholarship. The total number of Chancellor's Professors on the campus, excluding emeritus faculty, cannot exceed 3% of the filled faculty lines.
  
  

  Current Chancellor's Professors

• Chancellor's Fellow: Chancellor's Fellows are faculty with tenure whose recent achievements in scholarship evidence extraordinary promise for world-class contributions to knowledge, and whose pattern of contributions evidences strong trajectory to distinction.
  
  

Current Chancellor's Fellows

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