What does it take to create school facilities now that can handle challenges in the 21st century? What will students and staff be doing in 2030 that is different from today, and how will the community be involved?
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. — Business is booming in Farmingdale, N.Y, as the new $26.7 million School of Business at Farmingdale State College part of the State University of New York (SUNY) campuses, has recently broke ground.
LAWRENCE, Kan. — The University of Kansas (KU) recently received a $20 million gift from the Capitol Federal Foundation of Topeka. The gift will be used to build a new state-of-the-art building for the school of business. The gift represents the largest donation the foundation has ever made and the biggest donation ever received by the business school.
PALO ALTO, Calif. — In a country where citizens continue to demand increased performance from an education system that lost large amounts of funding to the recession, the political climate still reflects a strong distaste among the electorate for any level of tax increase, partially because the recession has also created such hard times for individual voters. This seemingly intractable combination of events has caused many school leaders and boards to turn to previously unseemly solutions for raising or maintaining funding streams.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Athletes are more than just role models on the big screen; in California one NBA all-star is also helping students succeed in the classroom.
David F. Hales was selected president and chief executive officer of Second Nature, the Boston-based advocacy organization committed to promoting sustainability through higher education. Prior to assuming the position, Hales was the fifth president of College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.
