What is the difference between a Chair and a Professorship?
A chair supports a faculty member’s salary and related expenses, including research, course development and professional conferences. Professorships support outstanding faculty members travel, training, equipment, etc., or a visiting professor to come to campus to teach. We have three Chairs at UAF, the CW Snedden Chair of Newspaper Journalism; the Arthur T. Fathauer Chair in History; and the Sydney Chapman Chair. There is currently only one Professorship, the Ted Stevens Distinguished Professorship of Marine Policy.
