Texas A&M's Mays Business School to receive $25 million in support
The Mays Family Foundation announced Monday it has committed $25 million to the family's namesake Mays Business School at Texas A&M University -- the largest single donation in the college's history and a move that dean Eli Jones said he considers a show of support for the college's vision for the future.
Donated through the Texas A&M Foundation, Jones said the money will go toward a new Lowry Mays Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy program, as well as growth for the college's study abroad program and a proposed $15 million expansion of the Wehner Building.
Jones said each of the areas tie into a strategic plan developed in 2016 -- a process that Lowry Mays himself was involved in.
"We took 2016 as a year for us to step back and think about the big picture, where we want to go from here," Jones said. "We wanted to develop a new vision for the Mays Business School, respecting the past while writing the future."
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