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The Corne¬ Daily Sun Vol. 133, No. 47
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Largest Donation Ever to Ithaca Campus
FISK JOHNSON ’79 DONATES $150M TO ENDOW C.U. BUSINESS COLLEGE By SO HYUNG KIM Sun Staff Writer
H. Fisk Johnson ’79, M.Eng ’80, M.S. ’82, MBA ’84, Ph.D ’86 already made Cornell history by holding the record for the most Cornell degrees earned by a single student. Today, he makes a monumental impact on the University by donating $150 million to the College of Business, endowing it as the S. C. Johnson College of Business. This is the largest gift ever made to Cornell’s Ithaca campus and the second largest to a U.S. business school, according to Cornell. “Cornell University has been a part of my family f o r more than 120
years,” Johnson said. “I hope this gift will serve as a significant catalyst to help growth the reach and impact of Cornell’s College of Business. The goal is to strengthen the College of Business overall, while enhancing its three individual schools and the qualities that make each exceptional.” Despite the controversy surrounding the creation of the College of Business just last year among current students, alumni, and faculty members, Johnson’s gift will be an important milestone for the growth of all three respective schools within the college. The $150 million gift will be divided into two compon e n t s , according to the University. The first
The Gift In Numbers
! The donation totals $150 million. ! It establishes permanent endowment of $100 million. ! Remaining donation is matched at 1:3 ratio as a challenge grant.
$100 million PHOTO will be used to COURTESY OF THE establish a UNIVERSITY permanent endowment to support the c o l l e g e’s f u t u r e endeavors, including faculty recruitment, rigorous research opportunities and the S. C. Johnson Scholars program, which will provide immersion programs, internships, and shadowing opportunities to undergraduates in Dyson and the School of Hotel Administration, according to the University. This endowment will help further the college’s initial goal of establishing a comprehensive and collaborative business management program, announced
Fisk Johnson’s ’79
$150 million donation will endow Cornell’s business college as the S. C. Johnson College of Business.
Soumitra Dutta, dean of the College of Business. “This extraordinary gift will further [our] goal by creating more diverse and rigorous learning and research opportunities for both faculty and students across See DONATION page 4
Gift Continues Family Legacy By ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer
H. Fisk Johnson’s ’ 79 $150-million donation to the College of Business — the largest single gift made to the University — is not the first gift the Johnson family has made to Cornell. In fact, the connection between the Johnson fam-
ily and Cornell goes back more than a century. “Few families have maintained such a strong tradition of Cornell involvement and support over several generations,” said Corey Earle ’07, former lecturer of the course American Studies 2001: The First American University. The Johnson name is
used in several campus institutions, including the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, the Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity, and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. “The Johnson family See FAMILY page 4
Cornell Alumnus, Lawyer Halts Two Deportations
Schaeffer ’92 works with legal team to fight for release of two detainees at airport By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer
As protesters swarmed airports around the country Saturday night to denounce President Donald Trump’s executive order banning citizens of seven predominantly-Muslim countries from entering the U.S., a Cornell
alumnus was working within the legal system. Joe Shaeffer ’92, an attorney in Seattle, worked with the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project to keep two men who were detained at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport from being deported.
Both unnamed men, who Shaeffer said had visitor visas, faced possible deportation after Trump signed an executive order Friday afternoon banning citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from entering the U.S. in the next 90 days and indefinitely banned people from Syria.
One of the men, who is from Sudan and resides in the United Arab Emirates, was visiting the U.S. to attend an engineering conference in Las Vegas, while the other man, a citizen of Yemen, was flying to visit his fami-
ly, according to a statement from the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. After taking the light rail to the airport, Shaeffer worked with a team of seven lawyers JOE SHAEFFER ’92
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