Some University of Arizona students are receiving a gift of a new learning space this fall — a $24-million, four-story, glass-and-brick building that is the public university’s first academic structure constructed entirely with private funds.

Soyeon Shim, director of the John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, raised the money over four years from about 2,000 individual donors and corporate donors such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger and Kenneth Cole, according to the Tucson Citizen.

The school, which includes a retailing center, had been located in a building shared with the university’s water department. —Kathryn Masterson