Support for Faculty is an Investment in Innovation

The value of funding professorships and faculty programs simply cannot be overstated.

The prestige that endowed professorships lend to their holders assists them in making key professional connections, participating in research projects and securing grants. Financial support also allows faculty to focus on teaching, mentoring, developing new courses and exploring new avenues of research—ultimately striving toward even greater heights in their fields.

These factors are absolutely vital to the university's ability to recruit and retain the kind of teaching and research talent that can shape Carnegie Mellon’s reputation in the eyes of the rest of the world.