Endowed chairs and professorships

This listing reflects the current chair-holders.

American Guidance Service/John P. Yackel Professorship in Educational Assessment and Measurement

• Mark Davison, Educational Psychology

Robert H. Beck Chair of Ideas and Education

• Not yet awarded

Emma Birkmaier Educational Leadership Professorship (term of appointment)

• David R. Johnson, Institute on Community Integration (7/1/2006 – 6/30/2009)
• Nicki Crick, Institute of Child Development (7/1/2005 – 6/30/2008)
• Sandra Christenson, Educational Psychology (7/1/2004 – 6/30/2007)

Guy Bond Professorship in Reading

• Deborah Dillon, Curriculum and Instruction (12/1/2007 - 12/1/2012)

Campbell Leadership Chair in Education and Human Development

• Darlyne Bailey, dean

Carmen Starkson Campbell Endowed Chair in Urban Education

• Not yet awarded

Gamble-Skogmo Land Grant Chair in Child Welfare and Youth Policy

• Susan Wells, School of Social Work

Irving Harris Professorship in Child Development

• Byron Egeland, Institute of Child Development

William Harris Professorship in Child Development

• L. Alan Sroufe, Institute of Child Development

Hellvervik Professorship in Adult Career Development

• No current chair-holder.

Bonnie Westby Huebner Endowed Chair in Education and Technology

• Aaron Doering, Curriculum and Instruction (1/1/2008 - 1/1/2010)

Nancy M. and John E. Lindahl Professorship for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

• Philip David Zelazo, Institute of Child Development

McKnight Presidential Chair and Professor

• Dante Cicchetti, Institute of Child Development

Henry Taylor Professorship in Exercise Science and Health Enhancement

• Arthur Leon, School of Kinesiology

The Tucker Chair (Dorothy McNeill and Elbridge Ashcraft Tucker Chair for Women in Exercise Science and Sport)

• Mary Jo Kane, School of Kinesiology

Rodney Wallace Professorship for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (term of appointment)

• David Chapman, Educational Policy and Administration (7/1/2006 – 6/30/2009)
• Karen Seashore, Educational Policy and Administration (7/1/2005 – 6/30/2008)