According to The International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) Foundation, Kieran Quinn, managing director, Guggenheim Partners and chairman of the ICSC Foundation, donated $25,000 to the ICSC Foundation to endow the Kieran P. Quinn Villanova University Undergraduate Award.
Beginning in 2011, the ICSC Foundation will be awarding a Villanova undergraduate student with $1,000 to be used to pay the recipient's qualified tuition and related expenses. The student must be a junior or senior, with at least one remaining semester, who has declared a major in real estate or a related field. The student may be studying either full or part time.
"My gift to the ICSC Foundation helped me benefit two institutions that are very important in my life," said Quinn. "A mission of the ICSC Foundation is to attract talent to the retail real estate industry and what better place to be looking for future members of our industry than Villanova University. Villanova has built a first class School of Business and with the addition of the DiLella Center for Real Estate, students are being exposed to all facets of our industry. My gift will support an ICSC undergraduate scholarship at Villanova for many years and I hope to meet future leaders from Villanova in the retail real estate business," Quinn added.
"Kieran leads by example and is now creating a legacy for both ICSC and Villanova," said John Crossman, president of Crossman & Company and co-chairman of the ICSC Foundation scholarship committee. "I hope this will encourage other industry leaders to rise to the occasion and match what Kieran did for their own schools," Crossman added.
Quinn, a long time member of the International Council of Shopping Centers, wants to leave a substantive legacy and contribute to the next generation of students interested in studying retail real estate at his alma mater, Villanova University. The purpose of the award is entirely charitable.