Purdue University announced today that it received $2.5 million from Wayne Booker, a former vice chairman of Ford Motor Company, to endow a chair in information literacy. It’s the first ever in the U.S. Booker graduated from Purdue in 1956 with a degree in economics. The university will do a national search to find the proper academic to hold the chair. This person will “conduct research and launch additional initiatives to increase students’ ability to access, assess, and integrate information, and make good judgments about what information on they choose to use.” Sounds like a good idea to me, and I particularly like it that the business press picked up on the press release.