Vincent Mo is at NYMA this weekend to hire a superintendent and greet the alumni. Dr. Mo is the chairman of the Board of SouFun Holdings Ltd., the company that bought the academy in October.
“I’d like to bring the school back to glory again,” he said during a brief interview. “I think it will be good for the community to have us here.”
This weekend he will greet the alumni and tell them that he plans to make a personal donation of $1 million to the school.
Besides that contribution, he expects the academy to spend about $400,000 a month on improvements. There are repairs to be made, and Dr. Mo expects to introduce a technology lab where students can learn robotics. “I hope when we’re fully funded,” he said, “we can achieve what we want to achieve.”
