All gifts are valuable

Faculty Development

• Endowed Professorship Chair
  Attracting and retaining brilliant academic scholars who can offer innovative and inspiring teaching is a difficult task. Endowed chair honors and nurtures academic excellence. Endowment of Rs. 40 Lakhs $1,00,000/- upwards is advised to establish an endowed professorial chair.

• The occupant of the chair will also hold a regular faculty position in an academic department at IIT Kanpur.

  Existing Faculty Chairs

• Young Faculty Research Awards
  Attracting young faculty with a brilliant academic record and a promising career requires start-up grants and funds to realize their dreams.

  Young faculty research awards can be instituted individually or funds may be donated to the Directors-start-up-grant to attract young faculty.

  This mode is particularly attractive for corporations that would like to get involved with IIT Kanpur in the new emerging areas of science and technology.

  An initiation grant of Rs. 10 Lakhs (US$ 25,000/-) upwards per faculty is advised.

• Visiting Faculty Program
  Minimum Rs. 250,000/- per faculty is required to support a visiting faculty for short durations (Endowment of Rs. 40 Lakhs or US$ 1,00,000), may enable one month visit from abroad and longer from within the country.
  
  
• International Travel Support to Faculty
  Interaction with peers and networking is the best way to enhance one's knowledge and understanding. International conferences offer this natural avenue. Travel grants for attending international conferences are few and far between. The situation is specially grim for young faculty. The International Travel Support grants may be instituted individually or funds may be donated to a pool fund. A travel support of Rs. 1,00,000/- per faculty per year would require an endowment of Rs. 20 Lakhs ($50,000) per travel fellowship.
  
  
• Faculty Excellence
  At present, institute honors excellence in teaching by recognizing the best teachers on the Teacher's Day. Donations are solicited to institute cash awards to nurture excellence in teaching, research and professional activity.
  
  Faculty awards of Rs. 1,00,000/- is suggested annually in each category for:
  outstanding teaching;
  outstanding research; and
  service to the profession (consulting, etc.)
  
  
• Distinguished Lecture Series