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Phil Knight gives $1 billion to Oregon: This is no time to abandon higher education
Just as the Trump administration has retreated from supporting higher education institutions, billionaire philanthropists have jumped in. MacKenzie Scott has donated more than $1 billion collectively to HBCUs, and Nike cofounder Phil Knight just made the largest known donation to a public flagship university. The University of Oregon, where Knight graduated in 1959, announced Wednesday that the Nike cofounder and his wife, Penny, had committed a…
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