William & Mary
business school named for Legg Mason president
The College of William & Mary has renamed its business
school as the Mason School of Business, in honor of alumnus
and long time supporter Raymond A. “Chip” Mason,
the president and CEO of Baltimore-based Legg Mason Inc.
Mason is a 1959 graduate of William & Mary and was
instrumental in the creation of the William & Mary
School of Business in 1967.
Mason has made substantial gifts to
the school over the years and has been active in the
recent $100 million
fund-raising effort. The initiative is part of an overall
$500 million Campaign for William & Mary, which
included funds for an endowment, faculty development
and construction
of a new building for the business school.
The Mason School of Business is the largest undergraduate
program at the college. At the graduate level the school
offers a full-time, two-year MBA program; a flex (evening)
MBA program; and an executive MBA program at its Williamsburg
and Reston facilities.
New graduate school building under
construction at UMW
The University of Mary Washington’s College of
Graduate and Professional Studies is expanding. Growing
enrollment at the 6-year-old campus near Fredericksburg
has spurred construction of a second academic building. “Our
classrooms are filled to capacity most evenings,” says
Meta R. Braymer, vice president for graduate and professional
studies.
Along Route 17 in Stafford County, the new 42,600-square-foot
building will house business, education and computer
training classes beginning in early 2007. The $9.9 million
structure will include classrooms, computer labs, a 350-seat
multipurpose hall and faculty offices. Enrollment at
the nonresidential campus is expected to double to roughly
1,700 by the year 2011, an increase the new building
will accommodate. Plans also call for a $2 million building
to link the new and existing buildings that will feature
case-study classrooms and breakout rooms for teamwork
and presentations.
Shenandoah University breaks ground on new business
school building
Shenandoah University recently broke ground on the new
Harry F. Byrd, Jr. School of Business building. The 40,000-square-foot
Byrd School complex will offer large and small instructional
spaces that promote research, collaboration and conversation.
The facility also will offer networked computer workstations
throughout, and multimedia presentation stations will
be available in all classrooms. The school is moving
from its former location at Mary M. Henkel Hall to a
more prom-inent position at the front of the campus.
VCU
begins construction on new site for business and engineering
schools
Construction is underway on Virginia Commonwealth University’s
11-acre, $228 million Monroe Park Campus addition, the
largest project in the university’s history. The
project’s first phase includes construction of
a new School of Business, an expansion of the School
of Engineering, the renovation of the Central Belting
Building for the VCU Adcenter, the first of two residential
colleges and an underground parking garage.Phase I of
the project is estimated to cost $165 million. The state
appropriated $25.3 million, and university funding and
income generated from student housing, parking and food
services are estimated to generate more than $60 million.
The remaining $79 million will be raised through private
donations to the campaigns for business and engineering
schools and the Adcenter.
The business and engineering
build-ings will be joined by a common atrium and student
commons. The new facilities
will allow the schools to add about 2,000 students. The
130,000-square-foot School of Business will include a
trading room, tiered case-study classrooms, team-building
rooms, an auditorium, a career center, a corporate education
center, faculty offices and a café. The 115,000-square-foot
School of Engineering expansion will include state- of-the-art
lecture halls, more than 60 research and teaching labs,
student meeting and study spaces, classrooms and faculty
offices.
