Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly US English) An endowed faculty position which is supported by the annual payout from a privately funded endowment. The endowment may cover the faculty salary, research and travel stipends or other associated costs and continues in perpetuity.
Usage examples of "endowed chair".
She smiled, imagining the Jennifer Logan Endowed Chair for the Study of Middle English Science Fiction—.
She smiled, imagining the Jennifer Logan Endowed Chair for the Study of Middle English Science Fiction—.
But first you find out what they want-football stands, or a particle accelerator, or an endowed chair.
Lemme put it this way- when Mommy gets her claws on some real money again, Mommy's gonna buy Daddy a nice endowed chair where he can sit and think quietly, all by himself.
Cardenas had accepted an endowed chair at Vancouver and from there won her Nobel Prize.
The social psychologist had left UCLA for the East last year, when an endowed chair in Group Process had been thrown at him.