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Turner College's Endowed Professorship Holders Kick Off National Philanthropy Week

Monday, November 11, marks the beginning of National Philanthropy Week in the U.S. To celebrate, CSU is hosting several events, including at least two events where CSU faculty and staff will gather to thank individual donors for their financial support of the work done here at CSU. To kick off the week, holders of endowed professorships in the Turner College are writing annual letters of thanks to the families who funded the endowments. The include Kirk Heriot, holder of the Evelyn and Ray Crowley Professorship, Dean Deb Kidder, holder of the Bill Heard Professorship, Rania Hodhod, holder of the Edwin and Florette Rothschild Professorship, Fady Mansour, holder of the Sarah Turner Butler Professorship, and Frank Mixon, holder of the Violet Litchfield and Thomas Bryant Buck Professorship. The two paragraphs that follow are the first and final from Mixon's letter to the Buck family. They provide an indication as to the value of these endowed professorships to Turner College faculty.

"As I have several times in the past, I am writing to you to express my deep appreciation for your family’s support of academic endeavors in CSU’s Turner College of Business & Technology. I am specifically referencing the Violet Litchfield and Thomas Bryant Buck Jr. Distinguished Chair, which I have held since August of 2019, and which has been very important my work as a professor of economics here in the Turner College. I would like to spend the few paragraphs over the remaining portion of this letter to highlight some of my work that the Buck Chair has supported."

"Hopefully I have expressed the enthusiasm I have for the research and teaching that I do for the Turner College of Business at CSU, and how the Distinguished Chair that your family provided to the University, and that I now hold, has supported my efforts to raise the profile of both the Turner College and CSU.  For that, I am very grateful to you and your family, and am happy to include the Buck family name on all the written work that I do.  I cannot thank you enough."
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