UNI-Dome Renovation

[UNIAlum95]

So the lead gift for the dome was announced as a very generous $5M from Marilyn Bohl a UNI graduate living in California. $45M to go…

[havok58]

Are the naming rights in the fundraising set up for in perpetuity? Looking at the the available spots, if UNI needs more money in the future I don’t know what else they could have someone sponsor. Maybe the bathrooms or stalls, concession stands.

as for the dome naming rights, the Dupaco Dome has a nice ring to it.

[havok58]

A quick bio on Marilyn Bohl. Looks like she gives back to the schools that she attended.
https://www.csulb.edu/49er-foundation/page/marilyn-bohl

https://insideuni.uni.edu/alumni/uni...cience-pioneer
in this article, it sounds like Ms. Bohl reached out to David Harris to offer support. Does the alumni association have a list of graduates and keep tabs on them, especially those that are doing well and have a history of giving to others? I just think it’s odd that this person would reach out to UNI versus UNI reaching out to her.

from the article: Marilyn noticed in an online athletics newsletter that UNI’s Athletics Department faced a $2.8 million COVID-19 induced deficit. She looked up Athletics Director David Harris’ online portfolio, liked what she saw, talked multiple times with Harris and others at UNI, and donated $25,000 in November to the Panther Scholarship Club to help student athletes

[UNIAlum95]

A quick bio on Marilyn Bohl. Looks like she gives back to the schools that she attended.
https://www.csulb.edu/49er-foundation/page/marilyn-bohl

https://insideuni.uni.edu/alumni/uni-alum-computer-science-pioneer

She’s pretty amazing and doubly cool that she is such a fan of athletics.

[Trapped in California]

How good of programmer/manager was she if she was put in charge of headline development project for IBM in the late 60s?

[sevelev711]

I'm starting to think there's money in this computer stuff. I'm sure there's reasons for not having a decent computer sciences program at UNI, but man if that's not a missed opportunity these days.

[clenz]

“Duplication of programs”.

The BoR has this theory to not allow more than one school to have a major emphasis area that would take away from the others. It’s why for the longest time the business and ed schools at Iowa and Iowa State took a back burner. Or engineering and ag/vet at UNI and Iowa or med/law/journalism at UNI or ISU

Then the BoR partially did away with it in allowing Iowa and Iowa State to dump tons of money into their business and ed programs. Meanwhile they actually cut computer related programs at UNI at the same time citing duplication of programs. UNI would make a killing in 2 areas: nursing and computer sciences. Thankfully we are being allowed to add the nursing programs. Hopefully soon we can add computer science related programs

[EVSPanther]

The engineering family of degrees, especially manufacturing engineering, if given a chance (by both UNI and BOR) at UNI would do really well. Our area is way above the national average with manufacturing jobs consisting of a large percentage of our workforce.

I think HCC does a better job integrating and promoting partnerships with area manufacturers. There is some cool stuff happening downtown with HCC/UNI/Deere partnerships, but on-campus could/should be more. Maybe the Tech remodel will be the start of something bigger…fingers crossed.

[UNIAlum95]

The engineering family of degrees, especially manufacturing engineering, if given a chance (by both UNI and BOR) at UNI would do really well. Our area is way above the national average with manufacturing jobs consisting of a large percentage of our workforce.

I think HCC does a better job integrating and promoting partnerships with area manufacturers. There is some cool stuff happening downtown with HCC/UNI/Deere partnerships, but on-campus could/should be more. Maybe the Tech remodel will be the start of something bigger…fingers crossed.

I have been working with the Department of Technology as part of the advisory board and after years of effort and with the leadership of the new department head Dr Riedle, we have successfully renamed the department to the Department of Applied Engineering and Technical Management. Additionally following the Electrical Engineering Technology program already in place and nationally certified, we have now created a Manufacturing Engineering Technology major with national accreditation in progress. We are making some nice progress there and I think these changes are going to open doors to new areas of study in the future. The BOR would never allow engineering to be used in majors or the department until recently so we've finally started to break through.

[BCPanther]

I have been working with the Department of Technology as part of the advisory board and after years of effort and with the leadership of the new department head Dr Riedle, we have successfully renamed the department to the Department of Applied Engineering and Technical Management. Additionally following the Electrical Engineering Technology program already in place and nationally certified, we have now created a Manufacturing Engineering Technology major with national accreditation in progress. We are making some nice progress there and I think these changes are going to open doors to new areas of study in the future. The BOR would never allow engineering to be used in majors or the department until recently so we've finally started to break through.

That's fantastic!

[EVSPanther]

I have been working with the Department of Technology as part of the advisory board and after years of effort and with the leadership of the new department head Dr Riedle, we have successfully renamed the department to the Department of Applied Engineering and Technical Management. Additionally following the Electrical Engineering Technology program already in place and nationally certified, we have now created a Manufacturing Engineering Technology major with national accreditation in progress. We are making some nice progress there and I think these changes are going to open doors to new areas of study in the future. The BOR would never allow engineering to be used in majors or the department until recently so we've finally started to break through.

That’s a great start! Thanks for sharing. Much better naming too!

[Panther AC]

Are the naming rights in the fundraising set up for in perpetuity? Looking at the the available spots, if UNI needs more money in the future I don’t know what else they could have someone sponsor. Maybe the bathrooms or stalls, concession stands.

as for the dome naming rights, the Dupaco Dome has a nice ring to it.

The naming opportunity for the Dome that is being proposed to the Iowa-based company is for 10 years.

[Newsbreaker]

The naming opportunity for the Dome that is being proposed to the Iowa-based company is for 10 years.

The list of potential companies isn't very large, is it? What kind of company is Iowa-based, but has that kind of marketing budget? Caseys? Kum-n-Go? Wellmark? Principal? Hy-Vee?

Hy-Vee burns money by the barrel on marketing. That would make sense.

[BCPanther]

The list of potential companies isn't very large, is it? What kind of company is Iowa-based, but has that kind of marketing budget? Caseys? Kum-n-Go? Wellmark? Principal? Hy-Vee?

Hy-Vee burns money by the barrel on marketing. That would make sense.

PCI, Veridian, GreenState, LSB, Deere isn't technically Iowa based but is certainly an Iowa company.

[UNIAlum95]

PCI, Veridian, GreenState, LSB, Deere isn't technically Iowa based but is certainly an Iowa company.

While the Deere Dome has a certain ring to it, that is way out of their wheelhouse for marketing and how they control that brand. Hy-Vee would certainly have the marketing budget and Newsbreaker's comment about them having marketing money to burn is accurate. How much do you suppose they are paying Mahomes and Kelce annually?