The Georgia Southern University Betty Foy Sanders Department of Art received a $500,000 gift from the estate of former Georgia Gov. Carl E. Sanders.
The gift will support academic initiatives for visual art and design students, exhibitions, merit-based projects, competitions and innovative curriculum development in the department named for Sanders’ wife.
Gov. Sanders died in November at age 89.
Both Sanders previously established separate endowments at the university for visiting artists, student travel and scholarship, said department chairman Robert Farber. Betty Sanders also donated the Georgia Artists Collection of more than 40 artworks to the Georgia Southern art department.
The University of Georgia law school also received $3.4 million from Sanders' estate. About $2.4 million of the gift will be used to create the Carl E. Sanders Law Scholarship Fund for law students. The remainder of the gift will be added to the Carl E. Sanders Chair in Political Leadership Fund, which was established in 2002 to support a faculty position.
The donation was the largest single gift in the law school’s history and makes Sanders, who earned his law degree from UGA in 1948, the law school’s greatest individual benefactor.
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