TAU Review 2018 Issue
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Major Boost for Campaign: Dedication of Millie Phillips Student City In a significant boost to its $1 billion philanthropists of Jewish causes. She
global fundraising campaign, TAU is naming its Student City complex in honor of Millie Phillips of Australia. The dedication follows a generous gift by Mrs. Phillips toward the Millie Phillips Development Fund, which will bring home exceptional young Israeli faculty members, award graduate and international student scholarships and bolster the campus’s physical development. Mrs. Phillips’ extraordinary gift will reinforce TAU’s mission to nurture new generations of Israeli innovators, leaders and educators as a means of helping Israel remain strong and competitive in the global arena. Millie Phillips is one of Australia’s most prominent businesswomen and
is a TAU Honorary Doctor and ardent benefactor, having previously supported the Millie Phillips Floor at the Check Point Building, currently under construction at the heart of the campus, and the Millie Phillips Lobby at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, which is slated to open later this year. Millie Phillips Student City is the largest and most ambitious building project in TAU’s history. The 60,000 sq. m. complex offers residential units for over 1,700 students and faculty from Israel and overseas. Dominating the southern section of the campus, it is the University’s most visible landmark.
The complex was built to increase affordable housing for talented and high potential Israelis from the periphery. And it has paid off, almost doubling the number of dormitory beds at TAU, including for married graduate students and young faculty members with families. Offering shops, cafes, gardens, promenades and recreational facilities, the complex has become an important and vibrant fixture in the Greater Tel Aviv cultural cityscape. Based on the tremendous success of Student City, plans are now underway to construct three more buildings to provide an additional 800 beds, thereby increasing the total capacity of the complex to 2,500 beds.
Millie Phillips Student City Complex
Millie Phillip’s Big Idea: “To build up Israel by nurturing new generations of student innovators and leaders.” 21
