Investing in Faculty and Staff and the
Futures They Inspire

All who attended UW-Eau Claire have fond memories of their favorite teachers and mentors — people like Leonard Haas, Laura Sutherland, Grace Walsh, Morris Hayes, Bill Zorn, Marguerite Coffman, Lorraine Missling. Today, the tradition of excellence they helped establish continues to flourish, and the result is great learning and personal growth. Through the Fulfilling the Promise of Excellence campaign, we seek investments to support and enhance the work of all our exceptional faculty and staff.

An upcoming challenge for UW-Eau Claire is the fact that one-third of our faculty and staff will retire in the next 10 years. Additional resources will be required to attract and retain outstanding faculty and staff in a highly competitive national marketplace. They will shape the university’s future.

Salaries are only one factor in attracting faculty and staff to UW-Eau Claire. They also look for a commitment from the university to their ongoing development as educators. To promote faculty and staff distinction, the university seeks investments for the following:

• Making time available to faculty so they may revise their teaching techniques and integrate the latest technologies into the classroom.
  

• Enabling faculty and staff to participate in professional activities that both expand their capabilities and allow them to represent UW-Eau Claire nationally and internationally.
  

• Supporting younger faculty in the critical early stages of their careers, whether by facilitating their research agendas or helping them undertake innovative approaches to teaching.
  

• Furnishing labs, equipment and student assistants for faculty-led research efforts.
  

• Creating endowed chairs, which will allow new faculty positions to be added in priority areas, thereby improving faculty-student ratios and increasing opportunities for faculty-student interaction.
  

• Attracting distinguished visiting faculty —whether academic figures from other institutions or practitioners from business, government, the arts or media — who can benefit the university and the community by the infusion of new and different perspectives.