Table of Contents
WHO, WHAT,
WHEN, WHERE
HEADLINES
Tyson gift puts campaign over goal
Summer abroad adventures begin in Scotland
'Global Issues' classmates tour Scotland
Delta Classic raises CSES scholarship funds
Poultry Science hosts youth conference
Philpot to host 'Party of the Century'
Basin Park Hotel hosts new course
Arkot 9203-03 and Arkot 9203-17 cotton lines released
Kwon receives NIH grant for Salmonella genome research
Student builds new tool or precision agriculture education
History exhibit features 1938 chair
Teaching Resources Center survey
Farm Management and Marketing Newsletter
Farm Bill resources added to AgLaw web library
ALL ABOUT ADVISING
August 2005 issue (PDF)
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July-August 2005 • Vol. 31, No. 4
Tyson gift puts campaign over goal
A gift of $12.5 million from the Tyson Foods Foundation put the Campaign for the Twenty-First Century over the $1 billion goal eight days before the campaign ended on June 30. John Tyson, chairman and CEO of Tyson Foods, said $5 million to $7 million of the gift would be for agricultural programs.
The Bumpers College and Division of Agriculture total for the campaign was at approximately $98.5 million on June 30, 2005. The goal was $69,350,000.
An earlier gift announced May 13 from Don Tyson and his family of $7.6 million included $4 million for agriculture.
Combined corporate, foundation and personal giving from Tyson entities to the campaign, which began in 1998, has totaled more than $27 million. Of that amount, nearly half has been for programs in the Division and Bumpers College.
Impacts in addition to those from the most recent donations include the creation of an endowment for the Donald “Buddy” Wray Chair for Food Safety, construction of a commercial-scale facility for broiler breeder research, and support of the Randal Tyson Scholarship Endowment in Poultry Science.
The direct impact of the campaign is seen in 77 new scholarships and graduate fellowships, 11 new Honors Academy Scholarships, more than $8 million for support of student programs, and more than doubling of the scholarship endowment from $5 million to $10 million.
Ten classrooms, teaching labs and auditoriums have been or will be renovated or added, including auditoriums in the Plant Sciences, Home Economics and AFLS buildings, the new William L. Abernathy AgriScience and Technology Education Center and the Dorothy E. King Equine Pavilion.
A $410,000 endowment was established for classroom and auditorium maintenance and technology updates. In addition, a $100,000 endowment has been established for the Hembree Auditorium.
Endowed faculty chairs and professorships created or enhanced include the Donald “Buddy” Wray Chair in Food Safety, L.C. Carter Chair in Rice and Soybeans, Rice Industry Chair, Clyde H. Sites Endowed Professorship in International Crop Physiology, Novus International Endowed Professorship in Poultry Science, Harold Ohlendorf Professorship in Agricultural Economics, and a future endowment for the Don White Professorship in Grain Merchandising. Additional faculty endowments will be funded by the Tyson gifts.