There's a week left to the month of June but that won't be enough time for JMU to reach its $12 million fundraising goal for the new Convo.

Athletic director Jeff Bourne hoped that goal would be reached by the end of June. But in a sit-down interview with WHSV sports director David DeGuzman this week, Bourne says there's still approximately $5 million left to be raised.

JMU announced plans to build a new Convocation Center in April 2015. Since then, the school has collected over seven of the 12 million dollars needed before the project can move forward. And all of that money raised so far has come strictly from individual donors, Bourne said.

According to Bourne, it's hard to pinpoint why fundraising has gone slower than expected.

"I really honestly felt like from a corporate sector, we would see more corporate naming opportunities there. We've not, yet," Bourne said. "There's still the possibility for a couple that would be attractive and we want to take advantage of. We're working on those now but they're still very early."

Bourne hopes to get the fundraising done by the fall so that design and construction can begin.