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A major focus of Campaign Minnesota was to increase funds available for attracting and retaining the best faculty, primarily by creating new endowed chairs and professorships.
A campaign gift of $15 million from the McKnight Foundation is helping the University take a giant step toward this end by creating the McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair fund. The quality of a university is directly related to the quality of its faculty, but competing with other schools for outstanding faculty becomes more and more difficult. The impact of this gift will be felt for many years to come.
Law Professor Dan Farber, a specialist in constitutional and environmental law and one of the first appointments to the new chairs, underscores the benefits of having a strong faculty, including their contributions as mentors to younger faculty and graduate students. "These are the people who will help to raise the next generation of scholars at Minnesota," he says. "Having a stellar faculty has an enormous ripple effect."
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David Tilman is one of 11 new McKnight Presidential Endowed Chairs, created through a $15 million grant from the McKnight Foundation.