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FAMU Deploys Independent Investigation into Donation, Announces Interim VP for University Advancement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FAMU received the gift — a donation to support of student success initiatives and athletics — from the Issac Batterson 7th Family Trust and Chief Executive Officer Gregory Gerami, a Texas hemp farmer and the founder of Batterson Farms Corp. She resigned to return full-time to her other role as dean of the School of Business and Industry.

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Donations to higher ed had biggest boost in 20 years

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Sixty-one percent of charitable donations to higher ed came from organizations, 22 percent came from alumni and 16 percent came from individuals who were not alumni. hit a record-breaking $485 billion in calendar year 2021, according to the latest report from the Giving USA Foundation and the Lilly Family School.

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A $50 Million Gift for Purdue’s Business School

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School of Business, the university announced Monday. The donation, committed by the Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation, will serve as the lead gift to establish the Bruce White Undergraduate Institute within the business school. A $50 million gift to Purdue University will be used to help relaunch the Mitchell E.

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NYU Puts $1 Billion Into Brooklyn Engineering School

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New York University will invest $1 billion in its Tandon School of Engineering in Brooklyn, adding $400 million to the $600 million it had already pledged to the school. “No university can achieve national or international status without a viable technology school,” she said.

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Schools of Music Move Toward More Inclusive Studies

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Two prominent efforts to diversify music in academia are the new University of Arkansas’ (UA) Arkansas Center for Black Music and the creation of the George Walker Center for Equity and Inclusion in Music at the University of Rochester’s (UR) Eastman School of Music (Eastman). Walton Foundation.

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Sustainability school faces backlash over fossil fuel funds

Inside Higher Ed

Image: In May, Stanford University announced it would open a new school funded by a gift of $1.1 billion from private equity billionaire John Doerr, the second-largest donation ever made to an institution of higher education. The trouble began in May, shortly after the Doerr School’s record-setting gift was announced.

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Center for Politics and Race Honors Late New Jersey Lt. Governor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with Dr. Jacqueline Mattis, the university’s dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. The New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson announced a donation to fund the Lt. James Jones, a sociology and Africana Studies professor at Rutgers-Newark and co-director of the Sheila Y.