Shidler donates $5M more to University of Hawaii business school
Jay H. Shidler, the Honolulu businessman who has donated more than $230 million in cash, land leases and in-kind donations to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, has given an additional $5 million to the business school.
The latest contribution to the Shidler College of Business, which is being announced today, adds to Shidler’s gifts of $117 million in cash and real estate ground leases in 2017, $69 million in 2014 and his initial $25 million in 2006, among others.
Shidler, a 1968 UH business alumnus and managing partner of The Shidler Group, has now given the equivalent of $238 million to the school in cash, land leases and in-kind donations — a total that is both the largest individual donation in the university’s 110-year history and the second-largest known gift to any U.S. business school at a public university, UH said.
