ARTS AND SCIENCES ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS
UNIVERSITY GUIDELINES

General Guidelines

  1. The policies, procedures for implementation, and spending guidelines concerning the professorships and the funds generated from the departmental professorship
    endowments are established by the University of South Alabama. The funds will be
    used by departments to supplement and enhance the teaching mission of the University.
  2. The funds generated each year accruing to the relevant department will amount to five percent of the principal balance in the professorship as of September 30 of each year.
  3. All funds accruing to the departments each year from the professorships are in
    addition to regular departmental budgeted operating funds, and not in lieu of such
    budgeted funds.
  4. Funds accruing to the departments each year should not be used to meet proration,
    cover departmental or college deficits, or used to make up any kind of regular budget shortfall.
  5. Any funds from the professorships that remain unspent at the end of the fiscal year do not lapse, but can be carried over to the following fiscal year and added to the new funding for that year.
  6. With sufficient notice, the department may elect to leave all or part of the funds for
    a given year in the USA Foundation account so that it may accrue further interest.
    These funds and the additional interest may be added to the regular funding in any succeeding year. Funds transferred to a university account from the Foundation may not be returned to the Foundation account.

 

Departmental Guidelines
  1. The faculty of the department will make recommendations to the chair concerning the use of the funds by the department to support its teaching mission.
  2. Authorization for expenditures will be processed according to established departmental, college, and university policies and procedures.
  3. Examples of uses include:

(A) If there are sufficient funds in the professorship, or if the department elects to combine funds from a vacant faculty position with the funds in the professorship, the department may use the funds to hire a distinguished professor. The professor shall have the title "USA Foundation Professor" in the particular discipline. The appointment may be permanent and tenure-track, or it may be for a term and denoted "visiting." Appointment to the professorship may be through either an internal or an external search.

(B) Professorship funds may be used to support lectureships in the department. The
person(s) so named shall have the title "USA Foundation Lecturer" in the particular
discipline. The lectureship is an honor in recognition of excellence in teaching and will carry a stipend. The lecturer( s ) may be named in conjunction with the establishment of a lecture series in the discipline. The lecturer may be an existing department member. Visiting lecturers may be named to reside in the department for a limited term (e.g., two weeks, one semester, one academic year, etc.). The number of lectureships in a given department is restricted only by funding and appropriate quality considerations. The use of the funds is intended to cover all possible colloquia, workshops, seminars, lectures, and courses presented by scholars, internal or visiting, within the context of the professorships.

(C) Funds may be used to acquire items or support activities that further, in the broadest sense, the teaching mission of the department. Appropriate expenditures of this type include items or activities that ordinarily would be funded from the department's operating budget or some other account, but that, due to budget constraints, are unlikely to be funded within a reasonable time in the normal manner. Examples would be the establishment of a computerized classroom or the purchase of specialized equipment or materials for use in teaching.
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