U of M Grad Donates $40M To Help 1st Generation Students
Its pretty impressive to get accepted into the University of Michigan, but to graduate and achieve massive success, then give back $40M...even more impressive.
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Its pretty impressive to get accepted into the University of Michigan, but to graduate and achieve massive success, then give back $40M...even more impressive.
Before New York real estate developer Fred Wilpon would become part-owner and then sole owner of the New York Mets for over 30 years, he was a 17-year-old first-generation college student who had gotten off an airplane for the first time in his life to attend the University of Michigan.
U-M announced a $40 million gift from the Judy and Fred Wilpon Family Foundation to endow the Kessler Scholars Program in perpetuity.