For more information about creating a named endowment or other naming opportunities at AUA, please contact the Office of Advancement.
The most direct way to change a student's path, funding tuition and career readiness for classes of AUA students to come.
An Endowed Named Scholarship creates a lasting legacy by providing scholarship support in perpetuity. The principal is invested through AUA's endowment, which is professionally managed by the University of California (UC). Only the investment earnings are awarded as scholarships, preserving the principal while generating sustainable support for generations of AUA students.
Endowed scholarships may be established in honor or memory of a loved one, creating a meaningful and enduring tribute. A minimum commitment of $50,000, payable over a period of up to five years, is required to establish an Endowed Named Scholarship. The full benefit to the student will be realized once the endowment principal reaches $50,000.
One professor can touch hundreds of lives. These endowments recruit, retain and celebrate the people who teach, mentor and research at AUA.
Named Endowed Professorship
Named Endowed Professorships are crucial for recruiting and retaining the highest-quality faculty at AUA. One professor or chair can touch hundreds of lives through the courses they teach, the students they mentor, or through their own academic work. Having endowed faculty means students are given the opportunity to not learn only from textbooks, but from the real world of innovation and discovery. By funding endowed professorships, donors can convene the brightest minds to focus on particular problems or issues and spur advances in those areas.
The annual payout from the endowment pays for a portion of the salary and a research stipend of a distinguished professor or associate professor.
Dr. Judson King Endowed Professorship
Dr. William Frazer Endowed Professorship
Named Endowed Visiting Professorship
The annual payout from the endowment pays for the salary and travel expenses of a visiting professor for teaching one or more courses in a selected program.
Drs. Alice and Ara Apkarian Endowed Visiting Professorship
Dr. Jack Munushian Endowed Visiting Professorship
Magdalena Yesil Endowed Visiting Professorship
Named Distinguished Lecturer
The annual payout from the endowment pays for the travel expenses and honorarium of a distinguished lecturer each year.
Named Faculty Research Award
The annual payout from the endowment pays for a Faculty Research Award on competitive basis.
Named Faculty Teaching Excellence Prize
The annual payout from the endowment pays for a Faculty Teaching Excellence Prize on competitive basis.
Named Faculty Development Grant
The annual payout from the endowment pays for faculty professional development, such as attending conferences or training courses.
These gifts keep AUA running well, sustaining resources, staff and the physical campus students learn on every day.
Student Career Center Endowment
The payout from the endowment is used to provide career development services to students and alumni, assisting them to find jobs in Armenia.
Endowment for Library Collection
Acquires new books, journals and electronic publication subscriptions for the AUA Library.
Endowment for Continued Greening of the Campus
Funds energy efficiency, alternative energy and environmentally safe practices across campus.
