In all, a $4.1 million project will provide the student center with a new student health and fitness center, a new student and community conference center, and increased capacity dining facility. It will be named The Rogers Student and Community Center in honor of the donors.
The Rogers Foundation was established by the late William F. “Bill” Rogers Jr. and Ethel Rogers to honor his parents, the Rev. William F. Rogers Sr., and his wife, Emily. The senior Rogers was a Presbyterian minister who had a long relationship with Ozarks.