Dana and Dave Dornsife have given $10 million to Whitworth University, which will be used to finish construction of a new health sciences building on campus and fund the accreditation process for two new graduate health sciences programs in physical and occupational therapy, the university announced Tuesday. (Courtesy Whitworth University)
A pair of prolific philanthropists have made the largest single donation ever to Whitworth University, the private Christian college in north Spokane.
Dana and David Dornsife have pledged $10 million toward a campaign to improve Whitworth’s undergraduate and graduate offerings, as well as improve campus amenities and instruction. Called Whitworth 2021, the project has now raised $151 million with the Dornsifes’ contribution, according to a news release from the university.
Here is this week’s news of grants or gifts to historically Black colleges and universities or for programs of particular interest to African Americans in higher education.
Jackson State University, the historically Black educational institution in Mississippi, received a $420,000 grant from the CDC Foundation to develop a marketing campaign to reduce and prevent the disproportionate COVID-19 transmissions among African Americans ages 18 to 29 in Hinds, Madison, and Rankin counties. These three counties have experienced the highest rate of transmissions in Mississippi.
The College of Business at historically Black
Delaware State University received a $500,000 New Castle County Innovative Grant to create a web-based COVID Recovery Lab to help businesses in Delaware’s northernmost region recover from the pandemic. Michael Casson, dean of the College of Business, is the principal investigator of the grant.