Russell Gives to UWT Business School
According to the News Tribune, the Russell Investment Group has pledged $250,000 to the UWT Business School. The money will be used to create an endowed professorship at the school in order to find and maintain top-notch teaching talent. It’s good to see local investment in the future of our local education resources.
This is particuarly interesting to me because it comes on the same day that I turned in my application for the UWT MBA program – just three days after I drove to Yakima to take the GMAT and fourteen days after I decided the time was right to go back to school. It’s been a pretty hectic two weeks.
Link to The News Tribune
Filed under: Tacoma Business, Russell
8 comments
F fredo April 24, 2012
“Anybody have any other questions?” Mayor Stickland
Yep.
1. Why is the city borrowing money using general obligation bonds in denominations beyond that which is needed to finance a particular project?
2. If there is left-over money why don’t we use those funds to repurchase those same bonds?
3. Has the city finished balancing the budget which has shown a deficit for the last 8 months?
J Jesse April 24, 2012
The People’s Pool is a bad idea. Pools are notoriously expensive to maintain. In fact, in my other life as a non-profit executive, we had summer camps with pools that we ended up backfilling with dirt because the cost per sunny day use was so outrageously high.
The Salishan library is a bad idea too. I’m glad they’re abandoning it. Physical books are on their way out and you could just have a desk where you loan out e-readers instead — at a savings of apparently millions.
Happy to see the Dome parking lot was abandoned for better ideas too.
J Jesse April 24, 2012
Could they, instead, use the $1.7m to fix Tollefson Plaza and make it a family friendly spot?
Turn the waterfalls 90 degrees toward the center of the plaza and have a gentle slope downward in front of it so kids can play in the water there.
C Christine April 25, 2012
$6.2 For a Puyallup Bridge match and $1.6 million for a Tacoma Bridge match? I thought it just took a deck of cards and a table. It seems a bit high, and why does a card game cost more in Puyallup than Tacoma?
T tacoma_1 April 25, 2012
Extend T-link
P Published Author RR Anderson April 25, 2012
Extend T-link x2
T talus April 25, 2012
x3
J jd April 25, 2012
Based on what it’s cost so far, how much farther could we go for $3M?