Education  November 15, 2016

CSU lands $53.3M gift from Walter Scott Jr. for engineering school

FORT COLLINS – Colorado State University on Tuesday announced the receipt of a $53.3 million gift from Omaha, Neb., businessman Walter Scott Jr., that is the largest in the school’s history.

The gift will benefit CSU’s College of Engineering, providing funding for student scholarships, faculty recruitment and research. CSU is also renaming the College of Engineering the Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering.

Scott – who served as CEO and chairman of construction giant Peter Kiewit Sons’ Inc. – graduated from CSU in 1953 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering. The $53.3 million gift is just Scott’s latest to his alma…

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