Fresno State’s President Joseph Castro ordered the University’s national and state flags to be posted at half-staff Tuesday in memory of Mrs. Dee Jordan, whose family donated $29.5 million to Fresno State’s Ag One Foundation in 2009.
“The impact of the Jordan family gift was transformational for Fresno State and continues to help us make our agricultural programs among the best in the nation,” said Fresno State President Joseph Castro. “Mrs. Jordan and her beautiful family are among the greatest benefactors this university has ever known and our students, faculty and staff will be forever touched by her generosity.”
The gift remains the largest single cash gift ever received by the California State University system.
The CSU Board of Trustees named Fresno State’s Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology in honor of the family.
Services were held Tuesday, December 8, 2015 in Hayward for Mrs. Jordan who died November 17th in San Francisco.
The cornerstone of the Jordan family’s vision for the college, the Jordan Agricultural Research Center, is now under construction on campus at Barstow and Woodrow avenues.
