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2016
IU Breaks Ground on the Kelley School of Business Conrad Prebys Career Center
IU Breaks Ground on the Kelley School of Business Conrad Prebys Career Center
IU President Michael A. McRobbie welcomes guests to the groundbreaking ceremony for the IU Kelley School of Business Conrad Prebys Career Center. The donor, who made the building possible, passed away in July 2016 after a battle with cancer.
Once completed in December 2017, the two-story, $14 million Conrad Prebys Career Services Center will meet an important need for an increasing number of students at Kelley as well as other undergraduates across the Bloomington campus. The career center was among several needs addressed when Prebys, president of Progress Construction and Management in San Diego, committed $20 million to IU and the Kelley School.
IU Foundation President and CEO Dan Smith expresses gratitude to Conrad Prebys and expresses condolences to his family.
Kelley School of Business Dean Idalene “Idie” Kesner recounts Conrad Prebys’ visit to the IU Bloomington campus shortly after his $20 million gift was announced in October 2015. “He toured Kelley’s newly expanded and renovated Hodge Hall Undergraduate Center and was greeted right here in this room by dozens of excited Kelley students holding giant posters and signs proclaiming his ‘awesomeness.’”
IU Foundation President and CEO Daniel C. Smith (left), IU President Michael A. McRobbie, IU Kelley School of Business Dean Idalene Kesner and IU Associate Vice President, Capital Planning and Facilities John Lewis break ground for the Kelley School of Business Conrad Prebys Career Center.