When Sonali Vijayavargiya arrived in the U.S. 13 years ago, she thought it would be easy to find a job. But no jobs were available, and no companies were sponsoring visas.
The funds, coming from the Zell Family Foundation, will go to the Samuel Zell and Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.
The Ross school at the University of Michigan has received a pledge of $60m from the Zell family to extend programmes at the school’s entrepreneurship centre, which already bears the Zell name.
The University of Michigan's business school is set to receive $60 million from the Zell Family Foundation, which has now donated more than $150 million to the university over the years.
A $60 million gift is headed to the University of Michigan’s business school to extend an entrepreneurial studies programs and create a $10 million seed fund for student business ventures.
