Grant Helps Chapman Fund Video Center
Students and faculty at Chapman University will be able to connect with professionals around the world with the use of videos and satellites, thanks to a $500,000 matching grant from the Weingart Foundation.
The money will be used to build the Ben Weingart Video Conference Center in the university’s Business & Information Technology Center, now under construction.
To qualify for the grant, the school must raise $20.5 million of the $21 million needed for the center by December 1998. To date, Chapman has raised $19.8 million for the new building.
“The Business & Information Technology building promises to help Chapman students meet the growing challenges of the business world by offering them lectures enlarged by telecommunications, blackboards enhanced by the Internet and learning attuned to the real world, in real time,” Chapman President James Doti said.
Construction of the 112,000-square-foot building is expected to be complete by the 1998 fall semester, university officials said.
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