ConocoPhillips Pledges $250K to Jones School

ConocoPhillips has pledged to donate $250,000 over the next five years to name the ConocoPhillips Seminar Room at the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management. The newly named seminar room is one of six 35-person seminar rooms in the state-of-the-art, 98,000-square-foot Jones School building. Past gifts from ConocoPhillips to the school total more than $250,000.

The Jones School has an ongoing recruiting relationship with ConocoPhillips for both interns and full-time employees—26 Jones School alumni and four students in the MBA for Executives program are currently employed by the company. Also, ConocoPhillips and the Jones School have successfully teamed up for the mutually beneficial Action Learning Project over the past three years. This 10-week student team-consulting project is part of the Jones School’s core curriculum. Student teams consult with host companies to improve a business process for the company. The Jones School is one of only two business schools that requires all students to have real business experience as an integral part of their education.

—Loren Wilkerson