Campus News

December 2023

Transylvania launches new Bingham Center for Teaching Excellence as next step in providing high-quality education for 21st century

With financial support from the Bingham Fund for Excellence in Teaching, Transylvania University is launching the Bingham Center for Teaching Excellence. The new center will focus on faculty development and student success, building on a long history of supporting and rewarding excellent teaching at the university.

$1 million gift endows Transylvania mathematics chair honoring professor

A million dollar deferred gift left by a Transylvania University alumna will support an endowed chair in mathematics honoring professor emeritus Charles H. Haggard.

Memorial gift endows Transylvania professorship, recognizes teaching excellence

A substantial gift from the estate of William R. “Bill” Stamler Jr. will create a new endowed professorship at Transylvania University in either English or theater. Named in memory of Mary Buford Hodges Stamler, a 1925 graduate of Transylvania, the gift recognizes excellence in teaching at Kentucky’s first university.

Prestigious Teagle Foundation/NEH grant awarded to Transylvania to enhance humanities curriculum

Transylvania has received $250,000 from a joint endeavor between the Teagle Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities to help students engage with literature, philosophy and history.