Purdue to rename business school for Mitch Daniels

Indianapolis, Indiana – Mitch Daniels, a former Indiana governor, and former university president, will be honored with a new name for Purdue University’s business school.

During its meeting on Friday morning, the Board of Trustees of Purdue adopted the name Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business.

The university’s business school will acquire its official name for the first time ever.

Before leaving his position as president of Purdue at the end of 2022, Daniels held it for ten years.

“To be associated with any aspect of Purdue’s academic enterprise is an inestimable honor, but this one, in particular, touches me deeply,” Daniels said in a news release. “Practiced with integrity, business careers are the noblest of life choices; they create new jobs and wealth for others and bring into being the resources that the public and nonprofit sectors take to pursue their goals. This modernized School of Business will send out its graduates armed with a sense of mission and the tools to fulfill that mission in the most complex of enterprises.”

A Purdue news release said the “reimagined Daniels School will prepare tomorrow’s leaders and entrepreneurs, grounding them in the hallmarks of a Purdue education, including STEM disciplines and business analytics.”

Daniels, who served two terms as governor of Indiana, declared earlier this week that he would not run for the available U.S. Senate seat in that state in 2024.