Richard and Mary McMahan gave the DeLand-based university $15.4 million. Mary left the gift to the school following her death on June 23. The gift will be split to benefit the Richard and Mary McMahan Scholarship for Volusia County students and serve as an endowment for the School of Music. Read more from WFTV 9.

International student enrollment has largely recouped to pre-pandemic numbers, including at the graduate level, with students from India, China, Sub-Saharan Africa and Iran helping drive the way.

Stony Brook University, a public school on Long Island, received a donation of $500 million on Thursday from a foundation formed by an alumnus and a former faculty member, making it the recipient of one of the largest gifts to a university in American history. The donation, which will go toward the school’s endowment, will also trigger […]