Ithaca College

The Office of the Provost & VPEA invites applications for the Dana Professorship. 

The Ithaca College Dana Professorship recognizes excellence among excellence. Thanks to the Charles A. Dana Foundation’s generosity and foresight, Dana Professorships are awarded to selected Ithaca College full professors who have demonstrated a continued record of excellence as well as a promise of outstanding future contributions in teaching, professional endeavor in their area of specialty, and service to college and community. Dana Professors serve as role models and mentors for faculty and students, freely sharing their leadership, expertise, advice, and experience with the College’s community and others who seek it. Towards this end, the Dana Professors’ activities reflect positively on and enhance the College’s national and international reputation as a center for academic and artistic inquiry. 

Dana Professorships are awarded for five-year terms, and faculty may reapply for the award at the end of their term. Candidates must be Full professors at the time of application and at any stage of their career, though the program actively encourages newly appointed full professors to apply. Candidates’ primary area of responsibility at the College must be teaching, with a minimum of six credits per semester.  

Candidates must have all materials completed (i.e. application form https://www.ithaca.edu/provost/docs/dana/, current CV, narrative and references) and sent to mataylor@ithaca.edu by April 19, 2017. A selection committee consisting of one representative from each School will review applications and make recommendations for approval to the Provost.  Awards will be announced no later than June 1, 2017. Two professorships to begin in AY 2017-18 will be awarded.

Members of the currently active selection committee and their relatives may not apply for the award while they serve on the committee. Relatives are persons related by blood, marriage, or legal procedure and include parents, children, husbands, wives, siblings, first cousins, and in-laws or "step" relatives, and any of the foregoing's uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, grandparents and grandchildren.