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Rance Sanders
The real estate program at the University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business has been named after Rance Sanders of Vestavia Hills after the college received a $5 million gift from Sanders and his wife, Angie.
The gift will enable the college to start a new real estate undergraduate major and expand experiential learning opportunities to enhance students’ skills through real-world applications. The donation will allow students and advisors to attend conferences and participate in real estate-focused case competitions annually and allow students to participate in live-work-play opportunities each year.
Sanders is president and CEO of The Sanders Trust, a health care real estate firm with properties across 30 states, and he launched Sanders Capital Partners, expanding into retail, office and light industrial real estate investments. He has been a fixture in the Birmingham real estate community for more than 40 years and is considered a pioneer in the national health care real estate industry.
In 2007, he established the Rance M. Sanders Endowed Real Estate Scholarship, which currently awards about $7,500 to as many as six students each academic year. He also is a member of The University of Alabama’s President’s Cabinet and is a board member of the 1831 Foundation.
