Support for faculty research, conferences, and seminar series helps make Illinois an exciting research institution. Gifts that fund faculty chairs and named professorships help us attract and retain outstanding faculty. The reputation of a great research university like Illinois depends in large measure on the renown of its faculty.
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ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP
Arthur Andersen & Co. Alumni Professorship in Accountancy Fred S. Bailey Memorial Professorship in Finance Harry J. Gray Professorship in Business Administration IBE Distinguished Service Professorship Irwin Jecha Distinguished Professorship in Accountancy J.M. Jones Distinguished Professorship in Marketing William G. Karnes Professorship in Mergers and Acquisitions William S. Kinkead Professorship in Economics A.C. Litteton Distinguished Professorship in Accountancy William McKinley Professorship in Economics H.T. Scovill Professorship in Accountancy C. Clinton Spivey Professorship in Business Administration Walter H. Stellner Distinguished Professorship in Marketing James F. Towey Professorship in Strategic Management NAMED PROFESSORSHIPS Commerce Alumni Professorship (2) Deloitte & Touche Professorship in Accountancy Ernst & Young Professorship in Accountancy Grant Thornton Professorship in Accountancy IBE Professorship (3) Office of Real Estate Research Professorship KPMG Peat Marwick Professorship in Accountancy Weldon Powell Faculty Fellow (4) Price Waterhouse Professorship in Accountancy |
It takes a superb faculty to attract the best graduate students in the country and guide their studies so that they in turn contribute to the body of knowledge. Quality instruction, at all levels is also essential. We are only as good as the students we attract, and fortunately, the College of Commerce attracts the best undergraduate students from the state and nation. The quality of our students is reflected in the number of firms that recruit our undergraduates and the success of our alumni when they enter the business world. Good faculty and good students plus an outstanding curriculum are required for excellence in education. We are fortunate to possess all three. Our success is due, in part, to the generous support of our donors who help make these things possible. Named and endowed professorships help us attract and retain outstanding faculty. The John Deere Foundation has given the college two grants to support the research on electronic commerce being conducted by Professor Michael Shaw of the Department of Business Administration. The Information Systems Group at Deere initiated this request to the Deere Foundation. Professor Shaw joined the department at Illinois in 1984. He has been on the research faculty at the Beckman Institute for advanced Study and Technology since 1988. Shaw, who holds a doctorate in Information Systems from Purdue University, specializes in the areas of electronic commerce, decision support systems, and business process improvement. He spent the 1995-96 academic year at National Taiwan University as a Fulbright Research Scholar. Professor Shaw is currently helping the UIUC MBA program develop the professional track on Management of Information Systems and Technology. John L. and Terry J. Mau Lastovicka have made a bequest of $30,000 to the university to support faculty and graduate student research. Two-thirds is designated for marketing research in the College of Commerce and one-third for advertising research in the College of Communications. John Lastovicka, who is a professor of marketing at Arizona State University, earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration in 1978, and an M.S. and B.S. in Advertising in 1973, 1972, all at the University of Illinois. Terry Mau Lastovicka earned an A.B. in Political Science from the university in 1973. |