In April 2008, the Latter-day Saint Council in the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University announced that the Howard W. Hunter Chair of Mormon Studies was initially funded. For all who were involved in the establishment of the chair—the Dean of the School of Religion, the LDS Council, and the students—this was a landmark event.  It meant that a professorship of Mormon Studies will exist in perpetuity at Claremont.  It is the only one outside of Utah and the only one existing at a graduate university level. . . .