"A $55 million gift to Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences will establish the Cornell CALS Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment , combining the Department of Global Development and the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. The school is named in honor of Stephen B. Ashley '62, MBA '64, whose gift to endow the school is the largest in CALS history."
"Steve Ashley's decades of leadership, advocacy and support for Cornell have had a profound impact on the university. This investment to create the Ashley School is both timely and visionary, allowing us to bring together the expertise in agricultural, life, environmental and social sciences that underpin environmental and human well-being locally and globally. We are so grateful to Steve for his generosity, partnership and friendship."
"My family has had a strong, multigenerational relationship with Cornell. I met my wife, Janice, at Cornell and over the years, Cornell has influenced much of my personal and professional life. I am delighted to be able to support this initiative, which has been so thoughtfully framed and structured. I appreciate how it creates even stronger collaborations between agriculture, environmental science, economics and research to positively impact communities."
A $55 million gift endows the Cornell CALS Ashley School of Global Development and the Environment and merges the Department of Global Development with the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment. The school is named for Stephen B. Ashley '62, MBA '64, and the endowment is the largest in CALS history. University leadership described the investment as timely and visionary for bringing together agricultural, life, environmental and social sciences to support environmental and human well-being. Ashley has given decades of service to Cornell in leadership roles, received the Frank H.T. Rhodes Exemplary Alumni Service Award, and leads The Ashley Companies. Ashley emphasized multigenerational family ties to Cornell and the initiative's potential to strengthen cross-disciplinary collaborations that positively impact communities.
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