Endowments and gifts
Two donors, $30 million
Gifts spark excitement in College of Engineering
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| College of Engineering celebrates $25 million gift to transform engineering education; $5 million gift to establish the McShane Chair. |
For the past five years Opus Dean of Engineering Stan Jaskolski has talked about Marquette’s role in preparing engineers who will make the world a better place. Alumni listened.
The College of Engineering received gifts from two couples who are giving the dean’s vision their full support: a $25 million gift was made anonymously by an alumnus and his wife as the first part of a legacy grant that could provide the university with an additional $1 million a year in perpetuity; and a $5 million gift from Jim, Eng ’68, and Kelly, Arts ’68, McShane will establish a chair in the new construction engineering management program.
The $25 million gift comes from a couple that has given generously to the university in the past. With this added to previous gifts, the couple has donated nearly $50 million to Marquette, making them the largest individual benefactors in the university’s history.
The donors want the latest gift to act as a “spark plug” in helping to transform the college. If the transformation they anticipate takes place, the couple’s foundation will consider extending the grant to provide $1 million annually in perpetuity to Marquette. “That commitment of long-term funding — literally forever — is unprecedented,” says Julie Tolan, vice president of University Advancement..
These gifts are part of a broad fund-raising initiative under way in the college to support endowed scholarships and faculty positions, an enhanced curriculum, and completion of what the college is calling a Discovery Learning Complex.
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