Faculty Support

Yale University is renowned for both teaching and discovery. Its senior faculty researchers also teach in the classroom, so that students can engage in the best of ideas and culture. Your gifts in support of the faculty are vital to advancing the boundaries of human knowledge and sustaining Yale’s academic excellence.

Endowed chairs enable Yale to attract outstanding academic talent to the faculty. Because the endowment secures the position itself, it enables Yale to appoint a distinguished professor whenever a position becomes vacant, building a tradition of leadership in the selected discipline. The endowed chair is widely recognized as the most prestigious honor a university can bestow on an accomplished faculty member.

Please visit our Gift Guide to learn more about ways to support Yale's stellar faculty.