$15 million gift to Ryerson business faculty; becomes Ted Rogers School of Management

Ted Rogers, whose cable, phone and magazine publishing empire is well known, has -- with his wife Loretta -- given $15 million to Ryerson University which, in turn, has named its brand spanking new business school the Ted Rogers School of Management. The school is on Dundas Street in Toronto, between Yonge and Bay Streets.

The majority of the gift will be used to establish 52 new undergraduate and graduate student awards and scholarships, at unprecedented levels for the University, said Ryerson President Sheldon Levy. The gift will also establish a new Research Chair to seed academic initiatives that will attract outstanding faculty and create centres of excellence in management research.

While Levy said this was the only school to which Rogers has given his name, in fact the Rogers Communications Centre at Ryerson has been the home to the School of Journalism and Radio and Television Arts for some 15 years; the school is named after Ted Rogers' father, however, a radio pioneer.