New Endowed Chair Announced

Deepening their support for the RJ Fellows Program and Muhlenberg College, Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Rita Scheller have made an extraordinary gift to create an endowed chair for the RJ Fellows program director.  RJ Fellows heard the announcement for the first time at the annual RJ dinner, on September 22.  Mr. and Mrs. Scheller were present at the annual event and shared their great hopes that the endowed chair would help create exciting new possibilities for growth and innovation within the program.  As the RJ Fellows program director, I am very honored to be the first holder of the Joseph and Rita Scheller Chair and excited to begin envisioning how to enhance the RJ Fellows program.  The endowment, crucially, will give me more time to devote to RJ fellows, to the program, to research on issues of change in my own area of scholarship, and to development of new RJ courses.  This is the College’s fourth fully endowed professorship.  The Morning Call covered the story on October 8.