{"id":4969,"date":"2006-07-01T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T17:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=4969"},"modified":"2017-11-13T11:55:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T16:55:30","slug":"future-home-for-college-proceeds-on-all-fronts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2006\/07\/future-home-for-college-proceeds-on-all-fronts\/","title":{"rendered":"Future home for college proceeds on all fronts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The physical construction of the new College of Business Administration\u2019s building complex is moving along briskly, as is the continued effort to raise funds for the multi-phase <em>Building for Business Campaign<\/em>, whose components include:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>the Building Complex Fund;<\/li>\n<li>the Growth and Excellence Fund, which seeks to increase annual giving for special programs and initiatives; and<\/li>\n<li>the Securing Our Future Fund, which will build endowments to support faculty and programs and includes the Scholarship Fund.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Construction shows daily progress.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"FIU College of Business\" src=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/July2006\/images\/0021.jpg\" alt=\"FIU College of Business\" width=\"408\" height=\"230\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cConstruction on our new building school complex finally got underway in March, 2006,\u201d said Executive Dean <strong>Joyce J. Elam<\/strong>, who along with Chapman School Dean <strong>Jos\u00e9 de la Torre<\/strong>, is investing time to make sure that events unfold smoothly. \u201cSince that time, progress has been amazing. It\u2019s exciting to come in each day and see more and more of the building taking shape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe foundations of Commons Hall and Student Hall are completed for the most part and the first walls already are going up for Student Hall,\u201d said <strong>Fernando Irizarri<\/strong>, coordinator of the college\u2019s facilities. \u201cThe expected time for completion\u2014including Academic, Commons, and Student Halls\u2014is September, 2007.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Irizarri, \u201cThe possibility of hurricanes and much rain\u2014two factors that can delay the project depending on their severity\u2014is keeping pressure on the construction schedule.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBizcam\u201d brings real-time images to computers everywhere.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The college has installed \u201cBizcam,\u201d a fascinating technology that turns any computer into a window from which to watch the daily progress of the construction.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, <strong>Annabelle Rojas<\/strong> (MBA \u201998, BBA \u201987) director of external relations and resource development, had planned to document the progress of the construction with photographs taken weekly from the roof of the Ryder Building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe soon discovered that the route to the roof was not an easy one, requiring going through special doors and scaling a ladder-like fire escape situated within the building,\u201d Rojas said. \u201cIn addition, permission and keys would be needed, making logistics time-consuming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"FIU College of Business\" src=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/July2006\/images\/0022.jpg\" alt=\"FIU College of Business\" width=\"408\" height=\"230\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" \/><\/em>With input from the college\u2019s Technology Center, in particular from Director <strong>Manoel Oliveira<\/strong>, a more feasible idea began to take shape. The result was the installation of a solar-powered web cam\u2014known as \u201cBizcam\u201d\u2014atop the Ryder Building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a nice way for people to participate\u2014to see how the effort and capital being put together for the dream of the <em>Building for Business Campaign<\/em> are being converted into reality,\u201d Irizarri said. \u201cIt enables us to share our happiness at the fact that the building is being constructed and will give donors and other supporters the opportunity to see the progress we are making.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Gifts support efforts beyond bricks and mortar.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In parallel to the physical growth of the buildings, fundraising efforts continue with every donation securing an equal match from the State of Florida. To date, major gifts have reached nearly $10 million, approximately $100,000 of which is from students, faculty, staff, and alumni for the Wall of Stars campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Among the many donors have been faculty members who have contributed generously to this first-ever initiative to raise money from within the college.<\/p>\n<p>For example, <strong>Dinesh Batra<\/strong>, professor, Department of Decision Sciences and Information Systems, felt there were many reasons to support the fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a caring work environment; an innovative dean; hard-working students; wonderful colleagues; a vibrant, diverse community; a city that is on the road to progress; and a university that has grown from four buildings when I arrived in 1989 to one with state-of-the-art facilities,\u201d he said. \u201cThe college is always there when I need it\u2014just like a family. So why not give?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The physical construction of the new College of Business Administration\u2019s building complex is moving along briskly, as is the continued effort to raise funds for the multi-phase Building for Business Campaign, whose components include: the Building Complex Fund; the Growth and Excellence Fund, which seeks to increase annual giving for special programs and initiatives; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[282,651,857,1405,1669],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29696,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/29696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}