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Investing in women's education is the best way to create a positive impact across the world.

Please give to AUW and help us to cultivate successive generations of professional and civic-minded women leaders for the world’s developing nations.

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Higher education is no longer a luxury; it is essential to future national social and economic development.

Task Force on Higher Education and Society
World Bank/UNESCO, 2000

 

faculty & curriculum Fund

Ensuring Academic Excellence

AUW's academic program focuses on critical thinking, effective communication, leadership development, and the professional skills graduates need to actively engage in shaping their societies' futures.

AUW faculty are drawn from around the world and work in small classes with a diverse group of promising women. Recognition for significant benefactors is based on individual preferences, but could include named chairs or programs, as well as invitations to participate in special academic programs and meet with faculty.

ACADEMIC SUPPORT

 

Support costs associated with undergraduate curriculum development, general support for first Vice Chancellor, Provost, and Deans

  Gifts of $100,000+

Graduate Program Development Fund: to accelerate curriculum planning and coordination with partner institutions for master’s degree programs in the last two years of study. Funds can be designated by program:

  • Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development (with Imperial College, London)
  • Entrepreneurship and Management

  Gifts of $250,000+

FACULTY SUPPORT

 

The success of the Asian University for Women will be in large measure a function of its success in mobilizing leading academics from Asia and other locations to join the faculty. Funds will cover salary, travel and start-up packages, as well as research and professional development support where applicable.

Senior Professorship: two-year term or endowed chair. For faculty of the highest caliber as determined by the Vice Chancellor or Provost.

  $250,000  current/
  $1 million endowed

Visiting Professorship: to enhance and deepen academic offerings, spendable fund for stipends, travel and start-up packages for visiting faculty over two years.

  Gifts of $100,000+

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT FUND

 

Incentives for attracting top faculty in needed disciplines—costs associated with hiring, salaries, start-up packages, research support and professional development.

  Gifts of $100,000+

STUDENT/FACULTY RESEARCH FUND

 

For undergraduate research with faculty mentors, both on campus and at other institutions.

  Gifts of $10,000+

VICE CHANCELLOR'S DISCRETIONARY FUND

To enable the Vice Chancellor to take advantage of special opportunities and programs, and to address immediate needs of the university.

  Gifts of $100,000+