• Business school construction reaches midway point

    Foster Campus for Business & Innovation

    Last Friday, Baylor Nation got its first peek inside the $100 million Paul L. Foster Campus for Business and Innovation. As work continues, the final steel beams signed by students, alumni, faculty, staff and friends will soon be fitted into place at the top of the Foster Campus structure.

    The Hankamer building that currently houses the business school was constructed in the late 1950s and early ’60s, with the addition of the Cashion Academic Center next door in the 1980s. Gifts from more than 500 donors — including a historic $35 million gift from El Paso businessman and Baylor graduate Paul L. Foster, BBA ’79 — funded the business school’s 10-year dream to expand the school’s size and increase opportunities for student and faculty collaboration across areas of business, science and technology.

    [SEE PHOTOS of the Foster Campus’ construction here.]

    The Foster Campus is set for completion by fall 2015. After that, the Hankamer building and Cashion Academic Center will likely become the new home for another (yet unidentified) school, program or department.

    Sic ’em, Baylor business!