Corporate Naming On Campus
Do you know of any buildings on the campuses of public universities or colleges that are named for businesses, as opposed to being named for individual people?
If so, please comment here with a link, if possible, or email me at terry.calhoun@scup.org. Thanks!
Following up, Inside Higher Ed has a story on July 6, A College By Any Other Name, on this topic, about the renaming of an entire college: The potential is for the naming rights to the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa to go to Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
More Followup: From the Daily Iowan, Controversial Name Change Voted Down by Faculty.
If so, please comment here with a link, if possible, or email me at terry.calhoun@scup.org. Thanks!
Following up, Inside Higher Ed has a story on July 6, A College By Any Other Name, on this topic, about the renaming of an entire college: The potential is for the naming rights to the College of Public Health at the University of Iowa to go to Wellmark Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
More Followup: From the Daily Iowan, Controversial Name Change Voted Down by Faculty.
posted by Terry Calhoun at
1:23 PM
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The McCormick Tribune Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology is not only a cool building, it seems to have a business-related name - but it was funded by the McCormick Tribune Foundation, so I don't know how well this fits within the parameters of the request.
Info here: http://chronicle.com/stats/architecture/architecture_detail.php?building_id=10080
Ford Motor Company Design Engineering Center at Northwestern - http://chronicle.com/stats/architecture/architecture_detail.php?building_id=10462.
I went through the Chronicle's great buildings database here - http://chronicle.com/blogs/architecture - and didn't really see any except for the Ford building and a few that were named after foundations sort of still had a company name in the foundation name.
Persis Rickes of Rickes Associates shares this one: The FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis: http://fedex.memphis.edu/.
From Whitney Rearick of Boise State: Boise State has our Taco Bell Arena:
http://www.tacobellarena.com/
There was some controversy over that renaming: http://www.arbiteronline.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=76288816-7524-4857-b8c4-4d734e5a48fb
On our campus we also have the Simplot-Micron Building, the Micron Engineering Center and Albertsons Library. Simplot and Albertson are last names as well as company names. Our new student health center (to be completed in '09) will be named for a company as well.
University of Arkansas has one: The J.B. Hunt Transport Services, Inc., Center for Academic Excellence. It's a multi-disciplinary facility slated to open later this calendar year.
http://dailyheadlines.uark.edu/5540.htm
The M&M Mars Room in the Leffler Chapel at Elizabethtown College: www.etown.edu.
Thanks to Judy Creel at UCF:
I work in the FAIRWINDS Alumni Center, named for FAIRWINDS Credit Union, here at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. The university also will be opening the Bright House Networks Stadium (named for Bright House Networks, primarily a cable company) this September.
UCF is a state university and one of the 10 largest public universities in the country.
From Carolyn Edy at UNC:
The FedEx Global Education Center at UNC:
http://international.unc.edu/GEC.html
From Ken Best, University of Connecticut:
SS&C Technologies Financial Accelerator and School of Business Graduate
Learning Center in Hartford at the University of Connecticut.
From Tom Griffin, U. Washington:
Bank of America Executive Education Center at the Universityof Washington
From Ann Kellett, Texas A&M:
First United Bank Building (special events center) at West Texas A&M:
http://eventcenter.wtamu.edu/
From Jon Bartel, UCSB:
The CH2M Hill Alumni Center at Oregon State University.
From Tina Hay at Penn State:
Penn State - Bank of America Career Services Center
From Susan Rogers, of SCUP:
"Fairfield University in Connecticut has a Pepsico Theatre, but its based on the foundation of that name and not the for-profit business.
PEPSICO THEATRE, built in 1922 as the garage on the Lashar estate, served as the campus Playhouse until 1990. It was renovated and renamed in 1994 in recognition of the PepsiCo Foundation's support of the University and now contains a small theatre/rehearsal area, and classrooms for drama, dance and set and costume design as well as a coffeehouse. "
From Lorelee Wederstrom of the University of Minnesota:
The University of Minnesota's new football stadium is named the TCF Bank Stadium. Here's the web site ......
http://www1.umn.edu/stadium/TCF.html
From Azita Dashtaki of Atlantic Florida University:
"In response to your inquiry as to College of Business being named after a corporation, at Florida Atlantic University we recently broke ground on the construction of the “Office Depot” Center for Excellence. This is a 12,000 GSF addition to our existing College of Business building and was partially funded through a donation by the Office Depot Center."
From Susan White, Southern Methodist University:
"Jones AT&T (football) Stadium and the United Spirit (basketball) Arena,
named for United Supermarkets grocery chain at Texas Tech University.
Susan"
From Tim Cotroneo of MDS Staffing/ Minnesapolis Drafting Services, Inc.:
"The University of Minnesota has the Carlson School of Management.
It's named after Curt Carlson of the Carlson Companies (Radisson hotels,
Carlson Travel, TGI Friday restaurants, etc.)"
From Kevin Santos: "the J.B. Hunt Transport, Inc. Center for Academic Excellence" at the University of Arkansas.
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