Led by a $30 million gift for expanding the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s business school, UTC raised a record giving amount of more than $60 million over the past 12 months.
“We have a big vision to go out and talk about,” Kim White, UTC’s vice chancellor of advancement, said in an interview. “It has been an incredible year.”
The $30 million gift was from Gary and Kathleen Rollins, and that gift followed a $40 million donation by the Rollins in 2018. The latest gift will be coupled with $66.4 million in state funds for expansion of the college of business, which was earlier named after Gary Rollins.
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The new record in the 2024 fiscal year that ended June 30 compares to $13.9 million in the prior 12-month period, according to White, who joined UTC’s leadership team in 2021.