Endowed Chairs and Distinguished Professorships are prestigious term appointments for scholarly achievement and distinction within a specific departmental unit. Contact your dean's office about open chairs.

Criteria for Appointment

1. Quality and number of scholarly and/or creative works.
2. Enhancement of the university's reputation through regional, national and international recognition of the professional work.
3. Quality of university teaching.
4. Service to the university and to the profession which distinguishes the individual and university. Appropriate professional and personal conduct.
5. Normally, recipients must be full professors at the University of South Carolina or eligible for initial appointment at that rank. In the former case, it is particularly important that the same high standards be adhered to for selection as in the latter. Appointment or reappointment to an endowed chair or named professorship should not be made merely as a reward for long service, however devoted.