Campaign Priority 2: Faculty

Our Funding Needs for Faculty:

Endowed professorships—to provide the long-term funding and prestige that are essential to recruiting and retaining top faculty and giving them the tools they need to succeed.

Program and research support—for projects and interdisciplinary initiatives across the university, such as the life sciences, biomedical engineering, the Society for the Humanities, and the Institute for Social Sciences.

Support for collaborations between faculty in Ithaca and researchers and clinicians at Weill Cornell Medical College—to drive medical breakthroughs and scientific advances.

Selected Giving Opportunities

Senior Professorship	$3 million
Full Professorship	$2 million
Cornell University Postdoctoral Fellowship	$1,500,000
Provost's Faculty Discretionary	$50,000
Creative ways to give	$250—$25,000
Cornell Annual Fund	gifts of all sizes
more opportunities

Cornell expects to lose one-third—up to 600—of its faculty in the next 10 years. A nationwide surge in retirements will make competition for top faculty the most intense it has been in 40 years. New funds are needed for endowed professorships and state-of-the-art labs and classrooms to successfully recruit the next generation of great professors.