{"id":22320,"date":"2016-01-15T10:19:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T16:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=22320"},"modified":"2016-01-15T10:19:43","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T16:19:43","slug":"naming-gifts-will-raise-the-bar-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/15\/naming-gifts-will-raise-the-bar-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming Gifts Will Raise the Bar for Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Richard Hanson cuts the ribbon on Oct. 2 to officially open renovated Memorial Hall during a morning ceremony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Renovation of Memorial Hall has opened a door of opportunity to donors who wish to support the College of Business, Technology and Communication through naming gifts for the building’s many rooms and features.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just as the building promises to be a magnet for student recruitment long into the future, it also provides a new avenue for BSU alumni and friends who seek to establish their own visible legacy or honor some other person, such as a family member.<\/span><\/p>\n

In addition to the business administration and accounting programs, whose courses are all taught in Memorial Hall, the CBTC includes the Department of Technology, Art & Design, noted for its outstanding exhibit and graphic design programs, as well as the visual arts and applied engineering. <\/span><\/p>\n

The college also leads Minnesota in delivery of online bachelor’s degree-completion programs in business administration and is a partner in an on-campus business degree-completion program at Anoka-Ramsey Community College.<\/span><\/p>\n

Naming opportunities in Memorial Hall vary from $500,000 for the historic Art Deco lobby and lower-level concourse, to $200,000 for an executive conference room, $50,000 for group learning centers, to $10,000 for individual offices – and those are only a few examples.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such gifts will fund the CBTC’s “2020 by 2020,” a plan to grow the college from about 1,300 current students to 2,020 by the year 2020 while raising the bar on every aspect of its academics and outreach.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We are pursuing many important initiatives that will integrate students, faculty and employers in meaningful and deliberate ways,” said Dr. Shawn Strong, the college’s dean. <\/span><\/p>\n

Other objectives of “2020 by 2020” include the ability to host student study tours to places such as Chicago’s Board of Trade or corporate headquarters in the Twin Cities, creating a more in-depth entrepreneurship program with real-world experience, launching an Executive in Residence program for visiting business leaders, and funding other initiatives to gain “gold standard” accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.<\/span><\/p>\n

An early naming gift came from the Carlson Companies, which named a suite of offices in honor of BSU alumna Trudy Rautio ’75, who retired in May as president and CEO of the Minnetonka-based travel and hospitality giant. Rautio serves on the BSU Foundation board and the Imagine Tomorrow campaign’s National Campaign Committee.<\/span><\/p>\n

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