PC Professor’s $500,000 gift ads new computer lab to Business School

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PROVIDENCE — Faith E. Lamprey, a member of the full-time practitioner faculty since 2013, donated a gift of $500,000 to Providence College and created a second computer laboratory in the School of Business. With 40 computers, eight flat screens, and a central pod for the instructor, it also established a Data Analytics Fellows Program for the business school and bolstered PC’s Transitions Program for multicultural and first-generation students.
The gift came about after Lamprey sold her computer consulting company, Aurora Technologies, in 2018. “I wanted to do something major because I love teaching here,” said Lamprey, who began at PC as an adjunct instructor in 2006. “I love the College, I love the faculty in the business school, and I love the students.”
Lamprey teaches six sections of Data Applications in Business, a required course for all business majors at PC. Through her teaching, she was aware that the College needed an additional computer lab, made possible by her gift. At the suggestion of Dr. Sylvia Maxfield, dean of the business school, the gift also was used to establish a Data Analytics Fellows Program for students who will serve as mentors to business school students and faculty.
In addition, $50,000 of Lamprey’s gift was designated to support the Transitions Program, a pre-orientation summer program for multicultural and first-generation students entering PC. She was inspired after hearing a presentation in 2018 by Dr. Bernice A. King, daughter of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the College’s first MLK Convocation.