The Scripps College of Communication will receive a $7.5 million donation before the end of this quarter, said Dean Greg Shepherd.
A graduate of the college who has declined to be identified gave the endowment. The donor might reveal his or her name before the end of Winter Quarter, Shepherd said.
It's been a long-term project to secure this commitment
but it's a wonderful thing for the college he said, adding that the gift might be the largest single donation given by a living individual to the university.
The money will be used to help support renovations to the Former Baker University Center, which will become the main building for the college.
The total cost of renovating Former Baker, Scripps Hall and the Radio-Television Building ' a long-term project to upgrade the college ' is about $35 million. More than $30 million of that estimated cost will go toward construction to Former Baker.
Capital appropriations will account for $21 million of the project. Sources for the rest of the cost are not yet determined.
The project, which is still in preliminary stages, should begin construction in January 2010 and should be completed by the fall of 2012, Shepherd said.
Plans for the new building were unveiled in February 2006 and include connecting Former Baker with the R-TV building.The new name of Former Baker will almost certainly be tied to the donor, Shepherd said.
We'll definitely let the name be known he said. We'll make a big deal out of this.
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