Private support provides the financial resources that allow Florida State University to attract the nation’s top students and best faculty and provide them with the cutting-edge programs and facilities they need to succeed. Recognizing donors enables the university to express its deep gratitude and show supporters how their generosity helps to foster excellence at Florida State.
Adapted from an article that appeared in the College of Arts and Sciences’ magazine, Spectrum
Like so many of her generation, Frances Cushing Ervin—a 1941 graduate of the Florida State College for Women—chose to forgo a career to stay at home and care for her husband and children.
“My mother never pursued a career of her own,” said Ervin’s daughter, Anne Rowe. “But what she did instead was inspire other people to accomplish things.”
Frances Cushing ErvinThe Florida State University Real Estate Foundation held its first board of directors meeting on Thursday, July 7, 2011, in Tallahassee. The newly established Real Estate Foundation exists primarily to receive contributions of real estate to hold, manage, lease, mortgage, develop, administer or sell in order to contribute or distribute all or a portion of the net proceeds from such activity to The Florida State University and The Florida State University Foundation.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State University has hired Kevin C. Graham, a real estate developer and project manager, as executive director of the Real Estate Foundation, a new position at the university. He began his new role on Monday, Sept. 16.
Kevin Graham
