{"id":11016,"date":"2021-08-25T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/?p=11016"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:50:23","slug":"tech-graduates-love-for-libraries-and-theatre-leads-to-estate-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/2021\/fundraisers\/tech-graduates-love-for-libraries-and-theatre-leads-to-estate-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech graduate\u2019s love for libraries and theatre leads to estate gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Muir, `77 speech and theatre, always knew he wanted to be a librarian and fell in love with libraries long before he enrolled at Tennessee Tech. \u00a0Thanks to a generous estate gift, Muir\u2019s love for libraries and theatre will ensure future generations of Tech students have access to the areas that were so important to Muir during his time at Tech.<\/p>\n<p>Muir said he was inspired by Henry \u201cHank\u201d Rowan, an American engineer and philanthropist who, in the early 90s, made a $100 million gift to Glassboro State University, a tiny school in South Jersey. Rowan\u2019s act of extraordinary generosity launched one of the greatest explosions in educational philanthropy, and his story has been featured in numerous articles including Malcolm Gladwell\u2019s Revisionist History podcast titled \u201cMy Little Hundred Million.\u201d Glassboro State was renamed Rowan University in Rowan\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n<p>Muir held seven progressively-responsible library positions throughout his career and retired from Rowan University as the associate provost responsible for three Rowan University libraries.<\/p>\n<p>Read Muir&#8217;s full story on Tech&#8217;s Development News website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tntech.edu\/univadv\/giving\/news\/muir-endowments.php\">The Scott P. Muir Support Endowments for the Volpe Library and Theater Program (tntech.edu)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Muir, `77 speech and theatre, always knew he wanted to be a librarian and fell in love with libraries long before he enrolled at Tennessee Tech. \u00a0Thanks to a generous estate gift, Muir\u2019s love for libraries and theatre will ensure future generations of Tech students have access to the areas that were so important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11017,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[23,24,22],"class_list":{"0":"post-11016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fundraisers","8":"tag-facstaff","9":"tag-rs","10":"tag-student"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2021\/08\/2021-08-18_611d1469e697e_muir-portrait.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11019,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions\/11019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.tntech.edu\/techtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}