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Founders: Frank Coleman, Oscar J. Cooper, Ernest E. Just (Deceased), Edgar A. Love [[image: round shield symbol of fraternity]] Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 2714 Georgia Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20001 Telephone: 667-7158 61st Grand Conclave August 9-14,1982 Miami Beach Florida ENDOWED FACULTY CHAIRS RUST COLLEGE HOLLY SPRINGS, MISSISSIPPI [[image]] [[caption]] Burnel E. Coulon, Grand Basileus [[/caption]] [[image]] [[caption]] Dr. Wm. A. McMillan, President, Rust College 1981 [[/caption]] STATEMENT The First Omega Endowed Chair By Dr. William A. McMillan The idea of the First Omega Endowed Chair came from or Grand Basileus, Brother Burnel E. Coulon. When he took over as Grand Basileus he made known again his dedication to the proposition that Omega Psi Phi Fraternity should be more than just a social Fraternity in the lighter sense. He wanted it to get involved in the outreach program to help promote and enrich mankind in addition to the great social action program led by Brother Edward J. Braynon, past Grand Basileus, which resulted in the Omega-UNCF program. Brother Coulon wanted to add other dimensions to our viability as a fraternity. The Omega Endowed Chair became one of those programs. The idea behind the Chair was that the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity would put in one of our historically black colleges a minimum of $5,000 to assist the institution in providing a Chair to promote a discipline of its choice. Our first Chair was to promote the Humanities with Dr. Benedict C. Njoku as the Distinguished Professor. With his training, education and experience, we can all be assured of his competence and dedication if fulfilling the rationale and criteria presented to the Fraternity as a part of the proposal for this distinguished professorship. Rust College/Proposal Rationale The greatest asset to the progress of higher education at Rust College is a well formulated and planned curriculum along with a systematically developed faculty. In order to survive the pressure of academic and the dwindling financial support, Rust has realized that it must do so on the strength of a well-developed faculty versed in the instructional methods that benefit our student clientele. To aid Rust in its constant search for viable curriculum and faculty programs, there is a need for competent persons to give specified area leadership. The Academic Policies Committee gave unanimous approval to the principle of selected Endowed Faculty Chairs to enrich and promote the needs of the academic community. For Rust College an Endowed Chair would be an academic position held by an incumbent professor considered eminent in the particular field represented. The professor must be determined by the specification of the donor and/or the academic policy committee. Funds secured for the Chair will be channeled to the college endowment except where an agency or person establishes a living endowment for the chair and thus provides annual contributions to partially or fully underwrite the cost of the chair. The interest secured from this investment will go to pay or partially pay the salary of the chairholder. A chair may be funded or partially funded by an agency or persons for a specific period of time. This proposal seeks $5,000 annually from the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity from its Endowed Chair Fund in promoting one discipline per year over a three year period in Humanities, Political Science, and Business and Economics. Rust College Criteria for Chairholder 1. The criteria for this position should include all of the minimum qualifications for Professor: A. Earned Doctorate degree (Ph.D. or Ed.D.) or the equivalent in teaching discipline from an accredited institution; B. At least eight hours of successful teaching experience or its equivalent with five on the college level; and C. Superior growth in personal and professional qualifications and evidence of original research (Evidence of scholarship and achievement in areas of special competence as indicated through membership in learned societies, publications, professional journals, or outstanding work in some field of human endeavor.) 2. Special criteria required for a Distinguished Professorship over and above the requirements for full Professor: A. Be outstanding nationally and, if possible, internationally known within teaching discipline. B. Two types of Distinguished Professorships: 1. A Distinguished Professorship to award Professors with long and distinguished service within The College; and 2. A Distinguished Professorship designed to attract and hold outstanding Professors drawn to the campus from the outside. 3. The job description for Distinguished Professor is the same as the basic job description for a full Professor at Rust College. 200
