The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/donation/page/2/)
“Piece-by-piece, through their loyal generosity and unstinting enthusiasm for the program, Dick and Dale have provided an invaluable foundation of support for tennis.”
Despite the controversy surrounding the creation of the College of Business just last year, Johnson’s gift will be an important milestone for the growth of all three respective schools within the college.
The contribution was made in response to a $3 million challenge grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies — a charity foundation created by Charles F. Feeney ’56, which has donated close to $1 billion to the University in the last four decades, according to the University.
“If you get, give. If you learn, teach.” — Maya Angelou
Yet, every time we are asked to give, we feel unsettled. At Cornell, student leaders are constantly battling, working with and against the administration with respect to the rising costs of tuition. An Ivy League education is expensive, despite the number of generous endowed scholarships, grants, need-based, need-blind or merit-based financial aid. The cost of private higher education is going up faster than inflation.