UA trustees return $21.5 million donation, rename law school

[TexasTowelie]

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — University of Alabama trustees voted Friday to return a record $21.5 million donation from controversial donor Hugh Culverhouse Jr. and rename the law school. Culverhouse had originally pledged a total of $26.5 million.

Culverhouse last week called for a boycott of Alabama -- school and state -- over the state’s latest near-total abortion ban law.

The UA System quickly responded saying the university and Culverhouse have been in an ongoing dispute over the millions he has donated to the law school unrelated to the abortion legislation, vice chancellor for communications Kellee Reinhart said last week. In an emailed statement, Reinhart said Culverhouse asked the school to return $10 million, “repeating numerous demands about the operations of the University of Alabama School of Law."

In a statement by University of Alabama System Chancellor Finis St. John to trustees on Friday said that since Culverhouse’s pledge “it has become clear that the donor’s expectations for the use and application of that gift have been inconsistent with the essential values of academic integrity and independent administration of the Law School and the University. Despite the diligent efforts and good faith of our Dean and President, there is no path forward consistent with those values.”

Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2019/06/ua-trustees-return-265-million-donation-rename-law-school.html

[empedocles]

1. Geoge Mason University, named after the great George Mason,

keeping the rw political sell out 'donation' for scalia name millions, and keeping the Scalia curse name for their law school.