Re: UC Irvine get Broadcom money

Steve Dossick (sdossick@cs.columbia.edu)
Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:48:02 -0500 (EST)

It would be interesting to make a plot of various engineering
school renaming-donations to see how much the average school costs,
or how much one of the top 10- 20- or 30- ranked schools cost to
name. Columbia's School of Engineering is now the (I kid you not)
"Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science", after a
donation of $26M.

The standard joke on campus is that we're now lobbying heavily the Bar
Foundation, as well as Calvin Klein's Foundation (CK)...

-s

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999, Gregory Alan Bolcer wrote:

> UCI gets record $20M donation; Broadcom's co-founder will aid
> our engineering program. In recognition of the gift, the school
> will be called the Henry Samueli School of Engineering. Silly UCI,
> I wouldn't have let it go for anything less than $100M *and*
> make him sign an exclusivity agreement not to give UCLA anything.
>
> http://www.communications.uci.edu/99releases/159sa99.html
>
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