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We welcome you to make a difference by contributing to AUW and helping 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

 

Planning & Development Fund

Ensuring Academic Excellence: Faculty and Curriculum

The Asian University for Women will be a new kind of university: a regional institution of the highest quality dedicated solely to women’s education and leadership development. Its “three plus two” program of undergraduate and graduate study will focus on critical thinking, effective communication, cultural understanding, and the professional skills for graduates to lead and actively engage in shaping their societies’ futures. Top faculty will be drawn from around the world and will have the opportunity to work in small classes with a diverse group of promising women. Recognition for significant benefactors will be 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.

1. Academic Planning Support

 

Support costs associated with undergraduate curriculum development, general support for first Vice Chancellor, VP Academic Planning, Divisional Deans

Gifts of $100,000+

Academic Planning for a Division: humanities, social sciences, or natural sciences

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:

  • Communication and Information Technology (with Aalborg University, Denmark)
  • Environmental Engineering and Sustainable Development (with Imperial College, London)
  • Public Policy
  • Education
  • Business, Management and Entrepreneurship

Gifts of $250,000+

2. Founding 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 living expenses, 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 Academic VP.

$250,000 spendable/
$1 million endowed

Visiting Professorship: to enhance and deepen academic offerings, spendable fund for stipends, travel and living expenses for visiting faculty over two years.

$150,000

Access Academy Teaching Fellowship: two-year period. Recent university graduates from developed countries will provide teaching and mentoring for students at AUW while observing first-hand the host of persistent problems of economic underdevelopment.

$30,000

3. Faculty Development Fund

 

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

Gifts of $100,000+

4. Academic Venture Fund

 

To foster innovation and entrepreneurial thinking, an “internal foundation” to support new teaching ideas and pilot new programs.

Gifts of $100,000+

5. Division Discretionary Funds

 

For speakers, equipment and other specialized needs.

Gifts of $10,000+

6. Student/ Faculty Research Fund

 

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

Gifts of $25,000+

7. 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+