This is an archived UW-P news item,
originally posted: 10/11/2006.
UW-Parkside receives its largest private gift ever
UW-Parkside receives $4.5 million gift from Milwaukee donor
The University of Wisconsin-Parkside has received a $4.5 million contribution from Milwaukee businessman Darshan Dhaliwal. The donation, the largest private gift in the university's 38-year history, was finalized during a signing ceremony held Monday, Oct. 9, on campus.
Mr. Dhaliwal's donation will help fund expansion of the university's Communication Arts Building. When completed, the building will provide space for more classrooms, studios, laboratories and theatre facilities to better serve students and the public.
The Communication Arts Building currently houses UW-Parkside's Fine and Graphic Arts programs, Theatre Arts, and Music as well as Communication, English, and Modern Languages. The Darshan Dhaliwal Modern Languages Laboratory, the Communication Arts Theatre, and the August Wegner Studio Theatre are located there along with faculty offices.
The expanded facility will be named Dhaliwal Hall. It is so named to honor not only donor Darshan Dhaliwal but his father and brothers as well.
In thanking Mr. Dhaliwal for his continued generosity, UW-Parkside Chancellor John P. Keating said Dhaliwal Hall is a symbol of campus progress. Dhaliwal Hall will be the first new academic building on campus since completion of an addition to Molinaro Hall in 1979.
"[Dhaliwal Hall] shows that the university is advancing as it should," Keating said. "Plus, it will give the arts and music the type of space they need for their practice facilities, and allow students to get into classes that they can't get into now because of a lack of space."
Keating added that in addition to his contributions to the campus, Mr. Dhaliwal has personally sponsored a sizeable number of students from his native India who have attended UW-Parkside.
Construction of Dhaliwal Hall will follow the completion of the Parkside Union expansion in 2009. When finished, the construction of Dhaliwal Hall will add 46,000 square feet bringing the building's total to 154,000 square feet. The larger building will allow UW-Parkside to contribute to the Wisconsin Growth Agenda of the University of Wisconsin System.
Publish date: 10/11/2006
