TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State University has received a $100 million gift from Jan Moran and the Jim Moran Foundation to create the nation's largest interdisciplinary and degree-granting school of entrepreneurship.
The Board of Trustees voted unanimously on Friday to name the school the Jim Moran School of Entrepreneurship. University president John Thrasher called the gift "a transformational moment" for the school.
According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, it is the largest gift to a public university in Florida and is tied for the highest in the state. The University of Miami received a $100 million gift from the late Leonard M. Miller in 2004.
The school will be based in downtown Tallahassee and is scheduled to launch in August 2018, on what would have been Moran's 100th birthday.
