Investing in the Best and the Brightest

FSI seeks support for the faculty and students whose vision and talent define the university.

• Professorships
  Endowed professorships are the highest honor the university can bestow upon current faculty who have made extraordinary contributions to research and teaching. They also enable us to offer competitive compensation packages in recruiting scholars who are in high demand around the country and the world.
  
  Donors may establish professorships in their own names or in the names of others whom they wish to honor, and the chair will exist in perpetuity. Income from the endowed gift pays the faculty member's salary and associated costs. In many cases, the income also defrays expenses related to the faculty member's work, such as library, staff support, travel, and other research-related expenses.
  
  Several kinds of professorships will directly shape the International Initiative. Some will be deployed by the provost as needed, some will be shared between the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI) and academic departments, and some will be school-based chairs. This plan will allow flexibility in placing faculty strategically to fill gaps—strengthening faculty on contemporary China and India, for example—or concentrate faculty in key areas where promising work is being done, as in new interdisciplinary programs in global justice and international health.
• Senior Fellows
  The senior fellow position offers FSI a premier opportunity to draw to Stanford extraordinarily talented individuals who are interdisciplinary scholars on a range of global issues, and whose careers have bridged the academic and policy arenas. Senior fellow appointments may be endowed in each of FSI's centers, which currently consist of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law; the Center for Health Policy; the Center for International Security and Cooperation; and the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, or within other institutes or policy centers. Often thought of as "public intellectuals," FSI senior fellows are faculty who are members of Stanford's Academic Council, who conduct policy-oriented research, participate actively in the real-world debates of our time, and dedicate themselves to teaching and training the next generation of international policy experts and scholars.
• Faculty Support Funds
  Endowed Faculty Support Funds help retain outstanding faculty by providing supplemental funding for endowed chairs or other faculty deserving strategic support. Faculty support funds also may be endowed or provided as expendable support to enable more faculty—particularly junior faculty—to attend international conferences, and to host international guests at seminars and conferences at Stanford. Additionally, support will be sought for Stanford faculty engaging in new collaborations with leading universities in the developing world.
• Visiting Scholars
  Many outstanding scholars from universities throughout the country and around the world have knowledge that can further the research and teaching goals of the initiative. While their expertise may not be needed indefinitely, they can offer invaluable contributions at a crucial stage of a research project or strategic collaboration.
• Graduate Fellowships
  The university's mission of excellence in teaching, learning, and research is fully embodied in its graduate students. Once admitted, these extraordinary students are offered financial support that usually comprises a combination of fellowships, loans, and teaching or research assistantships. Fellowships are key to our ability to offer the support needed to continue attracting the most talented graduate students.
  
  Modeled on the successful Stanford Graduate Fellowships Program launched in 1997, a new series of fellowships will be made available to support graduate students pursuing an interdisciplinary approach to their research and study. These fellowships will give students, who will be identified after the first year of their doctoral program, the flexibility to reach beyond departmental boundaries. Traditional fellowship funding ties a student to a particular department, faculty member, or even project. These multidisciplinary graduate fellowships follow the students where their research and study takes them.
• International Undergraduate Scholarships
  Endowed need-based scholarships specifically for international students will increase the number of undergraduates who are able to come to Stanford from outside the United States. Their presence at Stanford enriches the experience of American classmates and can have far-reaching effects in the students' home countries.
• International Internships
  Working with the Haas Center for Public Service, FSI seeks endowment and expendable support in order to be able to offer opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to participate in international public service roles, primarily with organizations within the NGO community in areas of the world most in need.

For more information about supporting Freeman Spogli Institute, please contact:

• Neil Penick
• Nora Sweeny