IU Kelley Center to be Named After Donor

Construction on the $14 million facility will begin this summer.

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A new facility at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business is being named after an IU graduate whose gift to the university made the facility’s construction possible. Work begins this summer on the $14 million Conrad Prebys Career Services Center. 

Construction is scheduled to be completed in December 2017. The university says once open, the Prebys Career Services Center will allow the school to address the needs of students served by Kelley’s Undergraduate Career Services Office, the number of which has almost doubled.

"The career services at Kelley are among the most innovative and effective in the country," said Idie Kesner, dean of the Kelley School. "It will be wonderful to have a facility that matches the quality of the services provided, and we are very grateful to Mr. Prebys for being the catalyst for the new center."

Last fall, Prebys committed $20 million to IU and the Kelley School. The gift allowed for the new facility and also established an endowment fund for "attracting and retaining top faculty and scholarships for high-performing undergraduates from underrepresented populations," according to the university.