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Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
campus, Krannert School of Management
Krannert School of Management
The Krannert School of Management is Purdue University's school of management. The school was established in 1962 as the Krannert School of Industrial Administration with a $2.7 million endowment from Herman & Ellnora Krannert....
. The building is named after Jerry S. Rawls
Jerry S. Rawls
Jerry S. Rawls currently serves as Finisar Corporation's President & Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors since March 1989. Finisar was started by Jerry Rawls and Frank H. Levinson in the year 1988. The Rawls College of Business and The Rawls Course at Texas Tech...
, a Krannert alumnus, who donated $10 million toward its construction. Rawls is currently the Chief Executive Officer
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...
of Finisar Corp. The building is connected to the Krannert building via an above ground walkway.
The 128000 square feet (11,891.6 m²), four story, $37 million state-of-the-art building houses 13 electronically equipped classrooms, a multimedia-based auditorium, 25 breakout rooms, distance learning facilities, sophisticated computer labs and a professional career center. It opened for classes in August 2003 and was formally dedicated in October of that year.