The Université de Moncton is getting closer to reaching their 50 million dollar goal for the ‘Evolution’ fundraising campaign.
Funds raised will enable the establishment of the ‘Centre de Leadership Frank McKenna – L’alUMni’.
Former Premier Frank McKenna has made a 1 million dollar private donation towards the creation of the new leadership project.
“I really felt that if we could get this right and if it would help create more leaders that it would repay itself, over and over again,” says McKenna.
He hopes the program will give students from all faculties the chance to participate in international internships and have conversations with leaders.
“We live now in global village where our trading relationships or political relationships are multi-national so we need to bee hooked in to all those big markets in the world and large communities in the world, so I want people to think bigger than New Brunswick,” says McKenna.
“We can produce more ambassadors, we can produce more jurists, more great authors and more business leaders who in turn will employ hundreds, maybe thousands of people and in that way it becomes a force multiplier that just grows and grows,” he adds.
Another one million dollar contribution from UdeM alumni will also be put towards the project.
