A $1 million elephant may be coming to Cal State Fullerton.
University Advancement introduced a mockup of a mascot statue they plan to build on campus during the Tuesday Associated Students board of directors meeting. The estimated $1 million cost may change depending on inflating materials costs and when the statue’s construction will take place, said Greg Saks, vice president of University Advancement.
About two years ago, the Alumni Association discussed building a statue on campus that would represent Titan pride, Saks said.
The association has given an initial investment of $120,000 to fund the statue. With additional donations from the Philanthropic Foundation, the statue now has about $600,000 in funding.
Saks said all of the donations would be exclusively for the statue and will not use any state funding.
“99.8% of all donations that come to the university are designated,” Saks said. “That being the case, when a donor gives to this project, it can only go to this project and can’t go to anything else without donor permission.”
Saks said the project would take a couple of years to complete due to supply issues.
“Even if tomorrow we said we wanted to do this, the supply chain issues have really impacted some of the materials that are involved,” Saks said.
Over the last year, surveys were sent throughout campus to receive feedback from students and faculty on what respondents thought was the best representation of the statue.
Current plans designate the statue will be built on a patch of land between the Humanities building, Langsdorf Hall and Gordan Hall.
The Daily Titan reported on this same elephant statue in 2018; the university has been interested in building a statue since the mid-1990s but could not obtain proper funding.
Saks said he sees the statue as a way to create campus pride and motivate more people to donate to the university.
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