The school was built in the mid 19 nineties for 500 students. They've now crammed 750 into the building while they wait for a new annex to be finished next door. The point is not to be more exclusive, It's to get bigger to serve more students. 95% of engineering grads go on to find jobs when they graduate.
In the early ’90s, Hank Rowan gave $100 million to a tiny public university in Glassboro, New Jersey: not Harvard, not Yale, not even to his alma mater, MIT. What was Rowan thinking? And why has it proven so difficult for other philanthropists to follow his lead?
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