UA receives largest academic endowment in more than two decades

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“Two prominent University of Alabama alumni, Dr. E. Gaylon and Mrs. Susan N. McCollough, have gifted the College of Arts and Sciences with its largest academic endowment in more than two decades – for the purpose of creating two unprecedented initiatives: The Dr. E. Gaylon McCollough Institute for Pre-Medical Scholars and the Susan N. McCollough Art Biennale.”

"McCollough Pre-Medical Scholars will engage in freshman foundations courses, biweekly convocations, independent research and seminars and also be encouraged to take a wide variety of interdisciplinary classes, in addition to small seminar classes open only to students involved in the Institute.

The McCollough Institute will also provide opportunities for concentrated mentorship by limiting the number of freshmen admitted to 40 per academic year, with no more than 160 students in the program at one time."

https://www.ua.edu/news/2017/04/a-prominent-ua-alumni-couple-contributes-the-largest-arts-and-sciences-endowment-in-more-than-two-decades/

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Nice!

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Weird that for the “largest donation in two decades” Alabama would want to publicize this donation with a press conference, yet they don’t want to say how much money was donated. The donors may have well just kept their donation anonymous. The amount of money donated should be the most important part of this story, but it is inexplicably omitted. Go figure.

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The donation is the largest in two decades to the College of Arts and Sciences (not the largest to UA).

The amount is over $5M.

The thread’s title should change to "College of A&S receives…

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You’re right @mom2collegekids . I wanted to summarize to shorten the title of the thread, but it may be misleading. Maybe one of the moderators can change it.