UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio - John Carroll University is using a $10 million donation from the Boler family to transform the Boler School of Business into a college, allowing the university to create new programs and hire new faculty.

Officials say that the change accommodates growth at the private Catholic university.

The Boler school , which has just over 11,000 alumni, was named the Boler School of Business in 1996, after John Boler, who was a 1956 alumnus, and his wife Mary Jo.

John Boler served as a trustee for more than 25 years, and the family gave more than $16 million dollars over the years to the university.

The new Boler College establishes an accounting and information science school, as well as a school dedicated to leadership and social innovation.Dean Alan Miciak said faculty numbers - currently about 38 full-time -- could expand by 10 percent.

The new school of Accountancy and Information Science will build on one of what Miciak called one of the Boler School's cornerstones - accounting. The school boasts high pass rates for the state public accountancy exams. It ranks 23rd nationally for first-time takers out of more than 300 institutions.

By adding information sciences to the school, Miciak said John Carroll is responding to a need in the accounting industry to hire employees who can handle data analytics and work with information technology.

The other new school, the school of Leadership and Social Innovation, will offer outreach programs to tackle economic inclusion and business creation. This could include work with nonprofit partners, underprivileged neighborhoods and schools.

"What we see in the student population, particularly this generation of Millennials and Generation Z, is that there's a different mindset among students today on how they view the role of business in society," he said. "They're just as interested in the purpose of the company as they are profitability."

Existing buildings and technology will likely see improvements with the Bolers' gift. This could include new labs for capital markets and finance and data analytics.