This past week saw three universities receive the largest private gifts in their histories, with the collective donation figure surpassing $200 million
, “My grandfather started the foundation in 1968, but my mother really developed it. It’s mostly an environmental and conservation foundation, but before she died about 15 months ago, she and I decided to expand that to medical research, too.
Cadigan earned his master’s degree and PhD in management from Claremont, while studying under management theory guru Peter Drucker, a longtime member of Claremont’s faculty. The gift will go toward the costs of constructing a building that will become the new home for the university’s School of Arts & Humanities. The facility will also serve as a hub for facilitating entrepreneurship and multidisciplinary research and education, a main principle advanced at CGU.
In the university’s release, Maria Cardigan said of her father who died in April 2020, “Dad felt a strong personal responsibility to give back to the schools that contributed to the man he became and to the high level of success he achieved. It deeply moves me when I think of CGU’s future generations of leaders working together and collaborating in the magnificent building that will be erected in his honor.
“This gift offers a tremendous opportunity for CGU to build something with form and function that inspires innovation and entrepreneurship,” said University President Len Jessup. “The working name in our master plan for the two-acre lot is the Da Vinci Project. That sets a high bar for what we want to accomplish, and thanks to Mr. Cadigan, that goal is within our reach.”
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