Heavy wallet

YEAR IN REVIEW

In 2009, FAU lost its president of six years when Frank T. Brogan became the chancellor of Florida’s State University System. But before leaving his post as the head of his alma mater, Brogan did what any good president does: raise money.

Between January and September of last year, Brogan raised $8,229,000 for the school. That money was only 6 percent of the total $126,177,000 that Brogan raised during his presidency.

Now, as the chancellor, Brogan is responsible for overseeing Florida’s 11 public universities. Although he has moved on to Tallahassee, he left behind a legacy at FAU that includes numerous buildings, some of which were built in part or in full with the money he raised:

2003: 
Boca campus:
- Heritage Park Towers dorm = $20,370,000
Jupiter campus:
- Library expansion and education classroom building = $6,487,000

2004:
Boca campus:
- Louis and Anne Green Memory & Wellness Center = $3,000,000
- Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing Building = $16,600,000
Jupiter campus:
- Harriet L. Wilkes Building (houses classrooms and admissions office) = $2,000,000
- Tamar and Milton Maltz Center for Education (a 500-seat auditorium that is part of the Elinor Bernon Rosenthal Lifelong Learning Complex) = $5,741,439
- Scripps research facility = $12,000,000

2005:
Boca campus:
- Library expansion and classroom building = $4,988,948

2006:
Boca campus:
- Glades Park Towers dorm = $25,958,000
- Track and field complex= $4,540,480
- Lee Street expansion = $3,212,000
Davie campus:
- Student Union = $5,772,512
Jupiter campus:
- Research facility expansion = $13,000,000

2008:
Boca campus:
- Computer Center remodeling and expansion = $9,734,200
- Phase 1 of the Recreation & Fitness Center = $6,087,478
- Office Depot Center for Executive Education (a unit of the College of Business) = $5,600,000
- Marleen & Harold Forkas Alumni Center = $2,759,700
Port St. Lucie campus:
- Phase 2 of the multipurpose building = $10,009,000
- Palm Pointe Educational Research School at Tradition (a K-8 school operated by the St. Lucie County School District in partnership with FAU) = $15,000,000
West Palm Beach:
- Pine Jog Environmental Education Center (a unit of FAU’s College of Education) = $3,000,000

2009:
Boca campus:
- College of Engineering & Computer Science Building = $43,754,000
- Culture & Society Building
Davie campus:
- FAU/UF joint-use facility = $39,270,000
Fort Pierce campus:
- Research Laboratory II = $18,500,000
- Link Building renovation = $7,500,000


Note: Former President Brogan’s fundraising was augmented by other sources for these projects.

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Dave

Sat Jan 16 2010 21:35

The Lifelong Learning Center needs to be moved off campus. It's a great asset to the university but senior citizens do not belong on a college campus. Furthermore Brogan's Crest of the Wave 2012 presentation that showed growth of 30,000 overall students while having 37,000 Lifelong Learning "students" is an atrocity. We are not a community education center. We are a public research university and we should be focusing on college students, not educating the elderly.

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