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The Chester Alter Visiting Professorship was established by the Loretto Heights College Board of Trustees in 1981 and transferred to Regis University in 1988. Since that time, Regis has brought eleven distinguished Chester Alter Professors to engage our students and faculty in a variety of ways. The reach of these teachers and scholars has been extended from undergraduates to graduate students and faculty, and several have drawn an audience from the general public through public presentations. The purpose of the fund is "to bring outstanding scholars from the arts, humanities, sciences or business to teach a course or seminar in their area of specialization or to give a series of lectures and/or to make one or two public addresses." The endowment was created with the idea that “one of the most important attributes of a college is its climate for intellectual excitement. Nothing contributes more to the realization of such an environment than the presence of outstanding scholars who just by being on campus serve as models for students and faculty alike.”