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Accounting leader Ernst & Young has had a strong relationship with Mays Business School at Texas A&M University for more than 30 years. They’ve cemented that bond with a recent gift of $500,000, which will be used to establish the Ernst & Young Professional Program Learning Endowment. This generous gift will be used to support faculty, students, facilities, and technology in the Professional Program in the Department of Accounting at Mays.

“We see Ernst & Young as a true partner with Mays Business School in our accounting education programs,” said Ricky Griffin, interim dean at Mays. “The Ernst & Young Professional Program Learning Endowment represents a major investment in Mays by the Ernst & Young Foundation. This endowment will help us continue to improve the quality of our professional program and significantly contribute to our goals of becoming a top five public business school.”

This gift is part of a new grant program, called the University Fund, which is currently in its pilot stage. Ernst & Young invites select universities to compete for grant money for new and creative programming. Through this fund, they hope to develop tomorrow’s leaders in the business industry, says executive director of the Ernst & Young Foundation, Ellen Glazerman.

“Every donor and every gift plays a unique role in the life of a university. Ernst & Young wants to be very involved at A&M. We want to understand the needs of the school and how we can help to meet those needs. We want to be part of an on-going collaboration,” said Glazerman.

“Investing in the work at A&M is really an investment in our own future…we continue to hire more and more phenomenal students from A&M,” said Glazerman, also citing innovations in faculty research that pertain to the accounting industry.

Ernst & Young, a global leader in professional services, is committed to restoring the public’s trust in professional services firms and in the quality of financial reporting. Its 114,000 people in 140 countries pursue the highest levels of integrity, quality, and professionalism, providing a range of sophisticated services centered on their core competencies of auditing, accounting, tax, and transactions. Further information about Ernst & Young and its approach to a variety of business issues can be found at ey.com/us/perspectives.

Mays Business School currently enrolls more than 4,000 undergraduate students and 875 graduate students. Mays is nationally ranked among public business schools for the quality of its undergraduate program, MBA program and the faculty scholarship of its 105 professors in five departments.