Kent, OHIO – A beam topping out ceremony held in June celebrated a major milestone in the progress of Crawford Hall, the new home of the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship.
Prior to the topping out ceremony, the beam was signed by the ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ Board of Trustees, donors, ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ leadership, members of the college’s National Advisory Board, faculty, staff and others. ¾«¶«Ó°Òµevent represented a long-standing tradition among iron workers to raise a beam featuring a small evergreen tree and an American flag on opposite ends as iron work nears completion.
¾«¶«Ó°Òµfour-story Crawford Hall, slated to open in 2024, will feature modern teaching and research spaces such as active learning classrooms, an entrepreneurship lab, a business analytics lab, behavioral research hub, sales labs, trading lab, global forum, business theatre and a student success center. Crawford Hall will be one of the largest buildings on any ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ campus to house an academic program and will provide approximately 50% more square footage than the existing structure.
Ambassador Edward F. Crawford provided the largest single gift in ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ history to complete the capital campaign for Crawford Hall on Kent’s campus and name the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship.
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¾«¶«Ó°Òµ ¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University’s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship
¾«¶«Ó°Òµ University’s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship is among the fewer than 1% of business schools worldwide to obtain dual accreditation in both business and accounting from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). ¾«¶«Ó°Òµcollege offers 11 undergraduate majors, 14 minors, and an undergraduate Professional Sales Certificate; MBA; master’s degrees in accounting, business analytics and economics; four graduate certificates and a Ph.D. program. For more information about ¾«¶«Ó°Òµâ€™s Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, visit www.kent.edu/crawford.