Muhlenberg College Announces Endowed Chair In RJ Fellows Program
Muhlenberg College has received a generous gift from the RJ Foundation that will fund an endowed chair for the College’s RJ Fellows program.Thursday, October 9, 2008 11:22 AM
Dr. Lora Taub-Pervizpour, chair of the department of media and communication, has accepted the Joseph and Rita Scheller Chair as Director of the RJ Fellows Program, the College’s fourth fully endowed professorship.
Mr. Scheller is a past member of the Muhlenberg College Board of Trustees and has been a long-time board member of the College’s Institute for Jewish-Christian Understanding.
Through the RJ Foundation, the Schellers started the RJ Fellows Program in November 2001. The program provides student scholarships and funding for course development, research, faculty development and the RJ Fellows Symposium, a speakers’ series. The RJ Fellows Program grants merit awards to students in each class who are academically adventurous, intellectually curious, creative and motivated to produce positive change in the world. The RJ Fellows Program complements the College’s Dana and Muhlenberg Scholars programs, which have been providing scholarship grants and academic enrichment since 1987 and 1990, respectively.
The RJ Fellows Program uses a visionary and unconventional approach to provide students with the intellectual tools and a capacity for self-reflection that will enhance their ability to make good decisions in the face of an uncertain future. RJ Scholars and courses focus both on change and the methodologies that empower individuals to understand and respond constructively to the uncertainties and ambiguities of the future.
