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Ken Griffin Announces Record $3B Donation to Carnegie Mellon
Billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist Ken Griffin is announcing the largest-ever donation from an individual to a university. Griffin’s $3 billion donation to Carnegie Mellon University is record-setting and comes with equally high ambitions.
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Both outlets lead with the $3 billion Carnegie Mellon gift and identify Kenneth C. Griffin as the donor. CNBC alone calls it a “historic” gift and says $2 billion would establish a new Miami campus, while the New York Times says much of the money would go to building a campus in Miami.
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