>> Anemona Hartocollis, The New York Times Published: 17 Dec 2020 08:23 PM BdST Updated: 17 Dec 2020 08:23 PM BdST Outside Prairie View A&M University's student center in Prairie View, Texas, Oct. 30, 2018. MacKenzie Scott, the world’s 18th-richest person, recently donated $50 million to Prairie View A&M University, a historically Black college in Prairie View, Texas. (Todd Spoth/The New York Times) They came like gifts from a Secret Santa, $20 million here, $40 million there, all to higher education, but not to the elite universities that usually hog all the attention. These donations went to colleges and universities that many people have never heard of and that tended to serve regional, minority and lower-income students.