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Support Faculty

“What really keeps me going is being able to connect what's going on in my research to what's going on in the classroom, to what's going on off campus. Sociology is not only understanding and explaining social institutions in the world around us, but also ultimately improving and changing the world.”

David Pellow,
Don A. Martindale Endowed Chair in Sociology

Great colleges have great faculty—like CLA's sociology professor Joel Samaha, who wins 100 percent positive student evaluations, and has inspired countless distinguished careers. Or the late professor Leo Hurwicz, whose mechanism design theory won him the Nobel Prize in Economics.

These scholars hardly stand alone in their excellence at CLA—our faculty receive Guggenheims, Pulitzers, Grammys, Peabodys, and MacArthur “genius awards.” They are Fulbright scholars, members of the National Academy of Science, and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Today, competition for faculty of this high caliber is increasingly intense and played out in a global arena.

CLA needs endowed chairs and professorships to attract and retain preeminent teachers and scholars. It needs endowed research funds to support the work of faculty members and keep them on the leading edge of their fields.

Philanthropy plays an important role in keeping CLA faculty strong.

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