Mr. Dornsife, 67, and his wife, Dana, 49, pledged $200 million dollars to the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles, to support the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, which was then named for the Dornsifes. The couple declined to disclose how much of the pledged amount was paid in 2011.
The donation is unrestricted, but university officials said they plan to direct the money toward financial aid, faculty recruitment, and a scholarship program for students who plan to focus their work after graduating on trying to solve social challenges. The couple said the recession played a part in their decision to give the gift because, “in general things have been difficult for higher education over the past couple of years, and we felt that we needed to step up and show that that could be changed,” wrote Mr. Dornsife in an e-mail to The Chronicle.
Mr. Dornsife graduated from the university in 1965 with a bachelor’s degree in business and serves on the institution’s Board of Trustees.
Together the Dornsifes served as members of the Steering Committee for the Tradition & Innovation fundraising initiative in the College. In 2009, their lead gift to USC and USC College’s neuroscience program provided support for the construction of a new Brain and Creativity Institute Building.
Through the Hedco Foundation, the Dornsife family legacy helped create the Hedco Neurosciences Building, the Hedco Auditorium, and the Hedco Petroleum and Chemical Molecular Biology Laboratories.
David Dornsife’s parents, Harold and Ester, were USC alumni and longtime supporters of their alma mater. The elder Dornsifes gave the lead gift for the Hedco Neuroscience Building, which helped establish USC’s position as a pioneering and important leader in the emerging field of neuroscience.
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