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University of Wyoming

Endowment Information

 Endowment Enhances Wyoming Higher Education
The 2006 Wyoming Legislature established the Excellence in Higher Education Endowment, which included a $70 million endowment for the creation of senior faculty positions for highly distinguished scholars and educators at the University of Wyoming.The legislation creating the Excellence in Higher Education endowment states that the endowed positions must expand university instruction and research in disciplines related to economic and social challenges facing Wyoming. Four endowed faculty positions must, by law, be in the College of Education. The remaining endowed faculty will be in other areas of distinction as identified in the university academic plan, including business, arts and humanities, mathematics, cultural studies, economics, and law.

Each of the endowed chairs will have established reputations in their field. They will have the opportunity to develop and lead nationally and internationally recognized programs, and are expected to be magnets for attracting the best and brightest junior faculty and students to the University of Wyoming.

As one of the nation's land-grant universities, the University of Wyoming executes several missions: to educate its students, conduct research, and provide service and outreach. These missions are vitally interwoven at UW in a strong, vigorous, academic community serving both Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain region.

Ranked by the Princeton Review as one of the nation’s best colleges for 2006, and with a student-to-faculty ratio of 15 to 1, faculty and students benefit from individual interaction, an achievement-oriented environment, and unique opportunities for learning and research presented by the state’s geography, natural resources, economy, and communities.

The university enjoys a distinctive leadership role in the state and region as the only public four-year institution of higher learning in Wyoming. The main campus is in Laramie, a city of 27,000 people in a scenic valley between the Laramie and Medicine Bow Ranges of the Rocky Mountains. Laramie is a two-hour drive north of Denver and little more than an hour from Fort Collins and Colorado State University.