Not Everyone Is Happy With Company Names on Business School Buildings

The headquarters of University of Kansas-Lawrence’s School of Business is getting a new name, and not everyone is happy about it. Capitol Federal Hall will be named after Capitol Federal Savings Bank, which made a $20 million gift to the school through its foundation. Kansas alumni expressed their opinions on Twitter:

Over the last five years, buildings or centers named after for-profit companies have opened at prominent schools across the country, adding a corporate flavor to campuses previously distinguished by their most generous alumni. There’s Wells Fargo Hall at UC-San Diego’s Rady School of Management; PACCAR Hall at Washington’s Foster School of Business (named for the truckmaker); and Houston’s Bauer College of Business named its Insperity Center after the human resources company. The Florida Atlantic College of Business executive education building is now called the Office Depot Center, perhaps to the confusion of hockey fans.