University of Oregon's Charles H. Lundquist College of Business Prepares to Break Ground on a $40 Million Business Complex.
Business Education in Oregon--A Bold New Look
In recent years the Charles H. Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon has reinvented it's curriculum. Continuing this transformation, the college will build a new home on the University of Oregon campus. The new academic teaching facility will help the Lundquist College compete for top students and faculty and bring state-of-the-art technology into the classroom.
The $40 million Lillis Business Complex will give business students a central gathering place architecturally reinforcing the Lundquist College's educational philosophy and securing the college's position on the UO campus and throughout the region. It will include modern caserooms, fully wired for internet audio and visual technology, and will be laid out to facilitate group work--an essential part of the revised curriculum. The facility will have learning centers for student teams to work together under direct mentoring from faculty and it will accommodate the increasing number of students and faculty presently at the college and allow for growth.
The Architecture of Learning
Actually an extension of our cutting-edge curriculum, the proposed new building architecturally supports and enhances our educational mission. Spaces within the new building were designed around and for our educational model. The new building will have 145,000 square feet of new space, and 50,000 square feet of renovated exceptional space.
The heart of the new academic teaching facility will be six learning centers. These learning centers will be hubs for student, faculty, and business interactions that will in every way ensure that our students are given the attention they need to succeed.
Anchoring the new academic teaching facility will be six tiered caserooms. Seating sixty students each, these caserooms will bring cutting-edge technology to the educational process. They will mirror our emphasis on teamwork and collaborative casework. The brilliant design allows for both standard lecture and team breakout sessions to occur within the same teaching space.
The Career Services Center is at the core of the new facility. The center will include computer stations for job searching, a student work area for researching companies, and a resource room that will contain important information on hundreds of corporations and industries. The center will also include four high quality interview rooms for use by companies coming to campus to interview students.
For more information on the building excellence campaign or the Lillis Business Complex contact:
Chris Murray at (541) 346-3401
cdmurray@lcbmail.uoregon.edu
The Building Excellence Campaign
In 1999 the Lundquist College of Business announced the Building Excellence campaign, the capital campaign to add to and renovate the buildings that house the college and all its departments and centers of excellence.
On November 29, 1999 the Lundquist College announced a $12 million gift from Chuck and Gwen Lillis to the building fund, pushing the college past the half way mark in funding for the $40-million campaign. When announcing their gift, the Lillis's commented that "it feels to us that today there is the right combination of leadership, quality faculty, and quality students at the Lundquist College. It feels a little like Camelot. A world-class facility will help the school achieve its lofty ambitions." Chuck Lillis is the former Chairman and CEO of MediaOne and an alumni of the Lundquist College.
The Lillis's gift is the second largest private donation ever made to the UO, and the largest made to the Lundquist College of Business. "Gwen and I believe an outstanding business school requires an outstanding physical facility," said Chuck Lillis who credited his wife Gwen with the idea. "We're very pleased to be able to help the Lundquist College build a nationally competitive infrastructure."
Building Campaign Gains Momentum
This past year we announced more generous gifts.
Matthew Katzer and Barbara Dawson of Portland donated $1.25 million for computer labs, software and a technology endowment fund. Katzer and Dawson spent eighteen and twenty-one years, respectively, in management positions at Intel Corporation.
Gerry and Marilyn Cameron of Vancouver, Washington pledged $1 million through the Cameron Foundation to name a financial learning center. Gerry Cameron worked his way up U.S. Bank's corporate ladder, and served as chairman and chief executive officer from 1994 until his retirement in 1998.
Oregon-based JELD-WEN, one the of world's largest manufacturers of windows, doors, millwork and specialty products, through its JELD-WEN Foundation, has pledged $1 million for a new Career Services Center.
Boyd Coffee Co. of Portland, Oregon has contributed $500,000 to build a hearth area, where students will be able to buy food and refreshments while meeting with fellow students and faculty.
Donald Tykeson donated $500,000 to fund a state of the art caseroom.
These contributions add valuable momentum to the college's Building Excellence Campaign.