Board approves funding
for new Purdue building
By Laura Pelner
Campus
Editor
The Board of Trustees approved funding for a new
University building for advancement that will help Purdue's fund raising
efforts.
President Martin Jischke said at the Trustees'
meeting on Friday that this building will give the University more synergy
and will allow people to collaborate more on fundraising projects.
According to the proposal, this building will provide
space for fund raising activities, cultivating donors and volunteers
and managing the advancement and alumni database and related gift processing
systems.
Purdue currently has advancement staff housed all
over campus, so this building will bring them together and make their
work more effective.
Wayne Townsend, vice chairman of the Board, said
the building's proposed site is the corner of Wood and Grant streets.
The 57,000 square-foot building would be built on a parking lot south
of Young Graduate House.
The Board approved $16 million for the building.
Ken Burns, executive vice president and treasurer, said $6 million of
the funds are being requested from the Purdue Research Foundation and
the remaining $10 million will come from University gift funds.
Purdue's new senior vice president for advancement,
Murray Blackwelder, who was ratified into the position at the Trustees'
meeting, will work out of the University Advancement Office Building.
The appointment will be effective July 1.
Blackwelder's job will include overseeing Purdue's
Office of Development, Office of University Relations and the University
radio station.
The Trustees also approved Sally Frost Mason to
the position of University provost. Frost Mason will be the chief academic
officer for the University, and will replace Robert Ringel, who is the
executive vice president for academic affairs, when he returns to the
classroom next semester.
Jischke said Frost Mason was the overwhelming first
choice for the position.
Frost Mason will be a professor of molecular biological
sciences. Her position is also effective July 1.
Phases three and four of the Heine Pharmacy Laboratory
renovation were also approved at the meeting. The renovations will combine
some of the smaller labs to create more efficient lab spaces and new
support areas will be added. Half of the funds for the renovation will
come from the National Institute of Health.
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