chaired

In which our dear friend Joe Boone gets an endowed chair, in a ceremony presided over by our Dean, Amber Miller - on the left - and the Provost.  So do two other people.  And lo and behold, USC has invented a New Tradition, probably going back to the C13th, or whenever.  THEY ARE PRESENTED WITH ACTUAL CHAIRS.  Is this a Thing, elsewhere?  Alice and I want to know if they are going to be issued retrospectively ...