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Graduates of Western Michigan University have given the school a donation that’s thought to be the largest gift to a public university in U.S. history. The anonymous $550 million donation will be split between the university, the Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine and Bronco Athletics.
At a press event today at WMU’s Heritage Hall that was also streamed online, President Edward Montgomery said the donation, known as the Empowering Futures Gift, would be delivered to the WMU Foundation over the next 10 years. He said at the money would benefit Western and its students at many levels.