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building our future B E C O M I N G A C O L L E G E O F D E S T I N AT I O N
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n 2018, the leadership of the College of Business began the initial planning stages of launching a campaign to build a new business building that will better serve the needs of our students and the business community. Along with our talented faculty and staff, an essential element to achieving
the College’s mission is upgrading to a modern, technology-enabled teaching and learning facility. An appropriate facility will create space for our current programs to expand and for our new programs to develop and thrive, while enhancing student learning and attracting new students.
Resident attendants (R.A.) and business students Kaushal Wagle and Sage Alexander have been working to build the community feel in the College’s residential
Achieving our bold goal requires a great deal of hard work, planning, and the
community in Dyer Hall by getting faculty involved.
support of our alumni and friends. Toward that end, the first step the College
“Hanging out with the professors makes being a part
took was completing a feasibility study to gauge the interests of alumni,
of the College of Business even more special,” said
donors and the business community, as well as to analyze potential for state
Alexander. The R.A.’s have hosted Pizza Night, Movie
support and the bonding capacity of the University. The response has been
Night and a Talent Show. The events have been a huge
overwhelmingly supportive, and the planning stage of the project continues. We are taking a thoughtful and measured approach to our building campaign by focusing on the needs of our students. We anticipate announcing more plans, and opportunities to contribute to a transformative campaign later in 2020. If you have questions or are interested in learning more, please contact Photo: Preliminary building mock up completed for the feasibility study.
BUILDING A SENSE OF Community
Kent Tingey at tingkent@isu.edu or (208)221-3549.
success in helping students get to know their instructors on a more personal level. Resident Trinity Kimmit said, “Playing Rock Band with my professor made me feel more comfortable asking him questions.” Photo: Accounting professors, Jerry Leffler (far left), Dave Bagley (drums), and accounting chair Ray Rodriguez (far right) play Rock Band with a Dyer Hall resident.
