UTICA, N.Y. — Utica College announced it will use a $125,000 grant from the George I. Alden Trust for a technology upgrade in Thurston Hall, the college’s newest academic building.
The funding award represents “the largest gift that the Alden Trust has ever made to the college,” Utica College said in a release.
Construction-management classes in Thurston Hall require “specialized” technology, Utica College notes. That includes new computers, some with one monitor and others that require two monitors for 3-D rendering; flat-screen televisions and remotes; “technology-enabled” equipment for labs; specialized printers; conference facilities equipment; and building-infrastructure technology such as cabling, ethernet switches, data jacks, security cameras, and card-swipe equipment.
Utica College says it has a “long-standing relationship” with the Worcester, Massachusetts–based Alden Trust. Prior to this latest grant funding, the Alden Trust had awarded the college two grants for biology equipment in 1998 and 2009, one for its science and technology complex in 2006, one grant for the Gordon Science Center microbiology laboratory in 2013, and a grant for nursing-simulation equipment in 2015.
About the Alden Trust
The Alden Trust was established by George I. Alden in 1912 with the mission of “the maintenance of some charitable or philanthropic enterprises,” per the trust’s website. The trust has a particular interest in “the promotion of education in schools, colleges, or other educational institutions.”
The Alden Trust has five primary grant-making areas that follow Alden’s desire to “do the greatest good for the greatest number.” That includes support of undergraduate education in smaller colleges that boast undergraduate enrollments of at least 1,000 students, but have a total undergraduate and graduate student population of 5,000 or fewer students.
About Thurston Hall
On Sept. 29, 2018, Utica College celebrated the dedication of Thurston Hall, the new construction management academic building on campus. The structure is named after Gary Thurston, Chairman and CEO of Syracuse–based Hayner Hoyt Corporation, for his “long-standing commitment to the growing construction management program,” according to Hayner Hoyt’s website.
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