The University of California-Los Angeles announced Thursday that entertainment executive David Geffen has donated $100 million to the university's medical school. Over the next 10 years, the donation will allow the medical school to offer a four-year free ride to its top applicants.
The $100 million donation adds to Geffen's previous $200 million donation in 2002 -- when the program was named the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA -- and makes him the single-largest individual donor to UCLA and to any single Uc campus. The gift is earmarked to cover the full cost of tuition, room and board, books, supplies and other expenses for up to 33 medical students, representing 20 percent of available spots in the program. Students will be selected on merit, and admissions officers will consider all incoming students to be automatically eligible.
In a statement, Geffen, 69, said he wanted to help students in the face of growing medical student debt.
"The...
The $100 million donation adds to Geffen's previous $200 million donation in 2002 -- when the program was named the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA -- and makes him the single-largest individual donor to UCLA and to any single Uc campus. The gift is earmarked to cover the full cost of tuition, room and board, books, supplies and other expenses for up to 33 medical students, representing 20 percent of available spots in the program. Students will be selected on merit, and admissions officers will consider all incoming students to be automatically eligible.
In a statement, Geffen, 69, said he wanted to help students in the face of growing medical student debt.
"The...
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