The University of South Florida announced the largest contribution in the school’s story: a$ 40 million donation from Arnie and Lauren Bellini to create a new College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing.
The product, school leaders said, will help change the location into a security head amid a workforce shortage.
Arnie Bellini founded the Tampa Bay based IT support firm ConnectWise, which sold for$ 1.5 billion in 2019. He donated$ to create a skill and career service centre on campus that he said had shut the skills gap between education and businesses. He has also donated$ 15 million to Tampa Catholic High School for an arts center.
His latest present, he said, is anything he hopes will protected the country’s political power
” If we get It ideal, it will uncover precedented unprecedented development, productivity and economic growth”, he said. ” It will drive the next wave of high tech work”.
The money will go toward scholarships, hiring instructors and a fresh place.
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Divya Kumar covers higher learning for the Tampa Bay Times, in partnership with Open Campus.