Northwestern College in Orange City is announcing the largest single gift in its history, a six-million-dollar naming gift for its new health and natural sciences building. Northwestern public relations director Duane Beeson says the 61-thousand-square-foot building is on schedule to open in August.
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Beeson says the DeWitt family has a long history of generously supporting Christian higher education and Northwestern College in particular.
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Beeson says the new science center will house classrooms, laboratories and faculty offices for the departments of biology, chemistry and nursing. It will also include increased space for collaborative student-faculty research. Beeson says the facility is already nearly paid in full.
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Of the 30-million dollar overall goal, he says there’s just two-point-six million left to raise.