Southern Adventist College college students, workers, donors, and group members be a part of collectively on Feb. 24, 2023, to dedicate land for a brand new constructing to accommodate the varsity of enterprise. Picture by Nick Evenson
Regardless of the specter of rain, Southern Adventist College college students, workers, donors, and group members joined collectively on February 24, 2023, to dedicate land for a brand new constructing to accommodate the College of Enterprise. After opening remarks, the group shaped a big circle across the future facility’s location and prayed collectively over the land.
A number of college and group leaders had been current, together with President Ken Shaw, EdD; Ron Smith, PhD, chairman of Southern’s Board of Trustees and president of the Southern Union Convention of Seventh-day Adventists; and native enterprise proprietor Franklin Farrow, chairman of the fundraising marketing campaign for the College of Enterprise.
“We’re very grateful that many have stepped up with their donations, time, and energies to make this mission doable,” Farrow stated. “Southern is within the enterprise of fixing and equipping hearts, and as we tackle this problem of making a brand new constructing, let’s do not forget that it’s greater than bricks and mortar. It’s a place that can form characters for generations to return.”
The College of Enterprise is the second largest tutorial space on the college’s campus, with a ten% improve in its enrollment over the past 5 years. At roughly 42,000 sq. ft, the brand new constructing will probably be practically 5 instances as giant as the present house designated for enterprise applications in Brock Corridor. It would home a big, multipurpose auditorium, and its funding lab will embody 12 Bloomberg Monetary Terminals—laptop software program methods on which college students can analyze real-time monetary market information.
Due to alumni, donors, and different mates of the college, $15.5 million of the $20 million marketing campaign, which additionally consists of an endowment, has been raised via donations and commitments. Groundbreaking for the brand new facility is deliberate for early Fall 2023.
“God has anointed our college students to be kingdom builders within the market,” stated Stephanie Sheehan, PhD, dean of the College of Enterprise. “He has referred to as and can proceed to name many college students right here, and we’re grateful they’ll quickly have a brand new facility to name dwelling.”
For extra data, go to southern.edu/gobusiness.
— Amanda Blake is a Southern Adventist College scholar author.
