Educational Initiatives

A TANGIBLE COMMITMENT
Initiatives Bolster Teaching, Research

By Diane Manuel and Marisa Cigarroa

President Gerhard Casper
and Faculty Senate Chair
Gail Mahood

resident Gerhard Casper has pledged $25 million in two path-breaking initiatives to bring freshmen and sophomores into closer classroom contact with senior faculty and to bolster support for graduate students. To ensure that undergraduates have the opportunity to study with tenure-track faculty from day one, Casper has allocated $15 million donated by alumnus and former trustee Peter Bing to fund 20 new professorships for five years. In a novel arrangement, departments will compete for these new faculty positions by demonstrating how they will redirect senior faculty into teaching small seminars for freshmen and sophomores.

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