TEST 2026-2028 Wang-Fradkin Award Nomination

The Faculty Development Council (FDC) and the Office of the Provost are pleased to announce the Wang-Fradkin Professorship Awards.

A BRIEF HISTORY

The Wang-Fradkin Professorships are named in honor of Hua-Cheng Wang a distinguished political scientist and diplomat and Dr. Cheng-Mei Wang Fradkin who was professor of Biology and chair of the division of Natural Sciences until her death in 1983. Originally founded by Dr. Fradkin as a fellowship in 1982 in honor of her father the University changed the award to a professorship and added the name of Dr. Fradkin to honor them both in 1996.

OBJECTIVES

The professorships are designed to retain outstanding faculty to Chapman University by recognizing exceptional merit in scholarly and creative activity. Each spring Chapman University awards two Wang-Fradkin professorships one to a junior faculty member and one to a senior faculty member. Each award provides the recipient with funds to support continuing scholarly-creative activity.

AWARDS

The Wang-Fradkin Assistant Professorship carries an award of $8000 (over two years) to support the recipients scholarly-creative activity.

The Wang-Fradkin Senior Professorship carries an award of $10000 (over two years) to support the recipients scholarly-creative activity.

ELIGIBILITY

The Wang-Fradkin Assistant Professorship is open to all tenure-track faculty at Chapman University. Nominees for the junior professorship must exhibit high potential for exceptional scholarly-creative achievement and must have a record of peer-reviewed scholarly-creative activity for the last three years prior to nomination.

The Wang-Fradkin Senior Professorship is open to all tenured faculty with a minimum of three years of full-time service at Chapman University. Nominees for the senior professorship must possess established records of exceptional scholarly-creative achievement and must have received significant professional recognition during the two years prior to nomination.

(In keeping with the definition of faculty as found in the Faculty Constitution individuals are eligible for the award if they have a full-time faculty contract (i.e. non-administrative) and are primarily responsible for teaching and scholarly-creative activity (i.e. more than 50% of load). In the determination of eligibility the Dean shall have final say.)