• Endowed scholarships help ensure that higher education remains available to distinguished and deserving students regardless of their financial circumstances.
• An endowed scholarship is a permanent tribute to the person whose name it bears, and it can always be augmented. In many families, adding to a scholarship fund established years ago has become a multi-generational tradition.
• A named endowment scholarship at NSU can be established with a gift of $10,000 or more. Gifts may be made at one time or over a period of years.
• Donors may select the college and/or department from which a student will be selected each year to receive their scholarship.
• Donors of endowed scholarships receive annual reports from the NSU Foundation on the financial status of their endowment fund as requested.

• Endowed professorships help ensure that the University can attract and retain
  distinguished and effective professors. Annual stipends are awarded to faculty
  members who are awarded such professorships. Professorships are very prestigious, and the faculty member who receives such distinction carries the name of the donor.
• A named endowment professorship at NSU can be established with a gift $60,000
  which is augmented with a $40,000 match from the State of Louisiana’s Board of
  Regents Support Fund (BORSF).
• Donors may select the college and/or department from which a professor will be
  selected to receive their professorship.
• Donors of endowed professorships receive annual reports from the NSU
  Foundation on the financial status of their endowment fund as requested.

• Endowed eminent scholar chairs are used to help support the teaching and research work of nationally recognized professors.
• A named endowed chair at NSU can be established with a gift of $600,000 which is augmented with a $400,000 match from the State of Louisiana’s Board of Regents Fund (BORSF). A super chair can be created when a donor contributes $1.2 million and the BORSF matches it with $800,000.
• Donors may select the college and/ or department from which a professor will be
  selected to receive their chair.
• Donors of endowed chairs receive annual reports from the NSU Foundation on the
  financial status of their endowment fund as requested.

• Donors can help support the work of faculty members in a particular college and/ or department by creating an endowed faculty development fund.
• A named endowed faculty development fund at NSU can be established with a gift of $10,000 or more.
• Donors of endowed faculty development funds can receive annual reports on the
  financial status of their endowment fund as requested.
  

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