UHV Receives $1.5 Million From Johnson Foundation

UHV Receives $1.5 Million From Johnson Foundation

Robert Halepeska, front right, executive vice president of the M.G. and Lillie A. Johnson Foundation, presents a $1.5 million check Nov. 9 to Bob Glenn, University of Houston-Victoria president, front left. This is the largest gift in university history and will be used for the equipping and build-out of health career education related labs that will be housed in the new Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, and Town Plaza Mall buildings. Also pictured are, from top left, Courtney Middleton-Sides, senior director for corporate and foundation relations; Russell Marshall and Terrell Mullins, board members of the foundation; Jesse Pisors, UHV vice president for advancement and external relations; Jeffrey Di Leo, center left, dean of the UHV School of Arts & Sciences; Buddy Brock and Jack Morrison, board members of the foundation; and Matt Alexander, director of UHV capital projects and construction.  

The largest donation in the history of the University of Houston-Victoria made this month will allow the university to enhance its health career education offerings for students. The $1.5 million gift from the M.G. & Lillie A. Johnson Foundation was made on the 30-year anniversary of the foundation’s first gift to the university. “We are extremely grateful to the Johnson Foundation for this remarkable gift,” UHV President Bob Glenn said. “Higher education is so important, […]