Mainline Information Systems Endowed Professorship
Mainline Information Systems has endowed the Mainline Information Systems Endowed Professorship in the Department of Computer Science. The endowment allocates $6,000 of funds per
year to be used by the Mainline Information Systems Professor.
Term: The professorship will be for a term of three years. The first full term will start at the
beginning of the 2008-2009 academic year.
Eligibility: To be eligible for the Mainline Information Systems Endowed Professorship, the faculty member must be a tenured faculty member, but not the CS Department Chair, in the Department of Computer Science. Faculty may not simultaneously hold the Mainline Information Systems Endowed Professorship and hold a Named Professorship or another Endowed Professorship
or Chair.
Criteria: Faculty holding the Endowed Professorship are expected to exemplify excellence in the
performance of teaching, research, and service in Computer Science.
Selection Process: Nominations of faculty are to be addressed to the CS Department Faculty
Evaluation Committee (FEC). The FEC will submit a rank ordered list to the CS Department
Chair from the list of nominations (consisting of at least two nominees, unless there are fewer
nominees than two). The Department Chair will make the final determination from this list. The
faculty member selected by the Department Chair shall be confirmed by the Dean.