Through
the generosity of friends, the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay is able to
award named professorships to support the scholarly work of outstanding faculty.
The University's first named professorship was created in 1980 in memory of
S.W. Frankenthal. The following three - in memory of Barbara Hauxhurst Cofrin,
Herbert Fisk Johnson and Ben J. and Joyce Rosenberg - were established during
the University's $2.5 million capital campaign. The campaign, led by community
businessmen James Temp and Donald Long, had goals of expansion of the named
professorships program, growth of the University's student scholarship fund,
and creation of on-campus residence halls for students. Supported strongly by
friends of the campus, the campaign exceeded its financial goal and allowed
UW-Green Bay to advance all three projects. The most recent professorship was
created in 1987 by Philip J. and Elizabeth Hendrickson.
Since the first award in 1981, 19 faculty scholars of the University of Wisconsin-Green
Bay have had the honor and distinction of being chosen for named professorships.
This web site offers a glimpse of those who established the professorships, or
the people in whose honor the awards are named. It also introduces the men and
women of the UW-Green Bay faculty who have, through their exemplary scholarship
and research, earned named professor recognition.
