Lucas gives $175m to university
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Star Wars creator George Lucas is handing over millions of dollars to the university where he studied film.
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Patricia Cornwell is donating $1 million to a top criminal justice college for a new academy to teach CSI techniques.
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GLENDALE, Ariz.  -- The University of Phoenix, the nation's largest private university, will pay $154.5 million over 20 years for naming rights on the Arizona Cardinals' new stadium.
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Howard University will receive a gift of software and other technology valued at more than $70 million, the largest contribution in its 137-year history, the university announced Tuesday.
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City school officials are expected to announce a five (m) million dollar grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The grant will help pay for the district&#39;s secondary school redesign plan, and create new partnerships with colleges in the area.
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Drexel University, the University of Michigan and Florida State University plan to use more than $600,000 in grants to turn the Internet Public Library into a virtual teaching and learning laboratory for digital reference.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 7-- -- West Kentucky Community & Technical College President Barbara Veazey is seeking private donations to add a $2 million engineering-research wing for the school's planned Emerging Technology Center.
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WASHINGTON - Congressional tax writers are taking a hard look at elite US universities' multibillion-dollar endowment funds and considering steps to make them spend more of their riches to help students.
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Prosperous alumni helped make 2006 a record fundraising year for colleges and universities, which hauled in an all-time high of $28 billion, a 9.4 percent jump from the year before.
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The University of Miami medical school on Monday announced that it had received a $100 million donation -- the second-largest amount ever given to a Florida university -- and that the money would be used for biomedical research.
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Prosperous alumni helped make 2006 a record fund-raising year for colleges and universities, which hauled in $28 billion -- a 9.4 percent jump from 2005.
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DETROIT: New York real estate mogul Stephen Ross has made a $100m donation to the University of Michigan, a gift the school hailed as the biggest in its 187-year history.
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A powerful southern New Jersey politician was paid for a no-work job at a scandal-ridden state university while helping the school garner millions of dollars in new state funding, according to a report released Monday.
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11/22/04- The founder of an information technology company and his wife are giving 44 million dollars to the University of Michigan.
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By MICHAEL HIMOWITZ  With their newly minted high school graduates headed off to college this fall, millions of parents face two agonizing prospects. One is coming up with the first tuition check. The other is buying their freshman a computer.
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England's universities will benefit from a new funding scheme to be announced by the prime minister.
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The University of Louisville yesterday made coach Bobby Petrino its first million-dollar man in the sport of football by approving a new contract that raises his guaranteed salary by $450,000 per year.