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Article: HOLLINS GETS $5 MILLION CREATIVE WRITING GIFT
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- Roanoke Times & World News
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- June 3, 2008
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Hollins University will receive a $5 million gift to establish
what will be known as the Jackson Center for Creative Writing.
The university announced Monday that alumna Susan Gager Jackson
and her husband, John Jackson, have pledged the $5 million to create
the center.
Hollins President Nancy Gray said the university is excited about
the endowment, which she said will enhance one of the university's
most popular academic disciplines. The university's total endowment
now stands at $122 million, and the Jacksons' gift comes just months
after a $15.6 million fundraising campaign announced last year,
which was the school's most successful.
"This incredible gift will allow us to enhance that ...