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Support for UI Facilities
Total campaign goal: $173 million
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Among the best ways to keep the University's intellectual and social community vital is to shape a campus environment that fosters productive interactions. The UI's physical facilities not only unite us in our academic endeavors, but also help us remember the past and reach for the future.
Within this campaign, we strive to secure the resources to enhance existing spaces and create new facilities that will help the University provide an optimal learning environment.
These days, the UI relies to a much greater extent on a combination of public and private resources -- state funding enhanced with private gifts -- to complete major construction or renovation projects. Public-private partnerships of all kinds can be critical in encouraging support from other sources, and early private support for UI building projects can be instrumental in leveraging support from the state.
Our comprehensive campaign seeks private funding for the following facilities projects. For each of these projects, naming opportunities exist to recognize high-level contributors:
Building projects in progress:
Completed building projects:
- The Pomerantz Center, housing the Marvin A. and Rose Lee Pomerantz Career Center, the UI's Admission Visitors Center, the Academic Advising Center, the Executive M.B.A. Program, and other career-related services
- A new building for our School of Journalism and Mass Communication, as well as a home for The Daily Iowan newspaper and general-use classrooms, to be located adjacent to the Becker Communication Studies Building and across from the Main Library
- State-of-the artbiomedical research and education facilities for the UI Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine -- the Medical Education and Research Building and the Carver Biomedical Research Building
- The Myron and Jacqueline N. Blank Honors Center, housing the UI Honors Program and the Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development
- Several athletics projects, including the renovation of the Athletic Learning Center and the UI Athletics Hall of Fame
- Revitalization of the Old Capitol Museum, including capital improvements and an endowment for educational programs and operations
- Restoration of the historic UI President's House at 102 Church Street
- The home for the College of Engineering, the Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences
- The Lucille A. Carver Mississippi Riverside Environmental
Research Center near Muscatine
Why now? Providing state-of-the-art classrooms and labs has never been more crucial than it is today. Iowa's students and faculty deserve the finest facilities. If we do not keep our campus up to date, we run the risk of losing the UI's best and brightest -- and falling far behind other top-ranked public universities.
By putting your gifts to work, you can help build the future, brick by brick, at The University of Iowa.
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"There's an old Chinese proverb: I hear and I forget; I see and I remember; I do and I really have learned.
"'Doing' is probably the most important part of learning, and a good building is essential for the best kind of productive student-faculty interaction to occur."
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Jerald L. Schnoor,
Allen Henry Chair of Engineering,
College of Engineering
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