MacKenzie Scott, Mentored by Toni Morrison at Princeton, Gives $25 Million to Another HBCU: Lincoln University

Lincoln University receives record $25 million donation from MacKenzie Scott

Lincoln University has received a $25 million gift from philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, marking only the second unrestricted donation in the university’s history.

MacKenzie Scott, Mentored by Toni Morrison at Princeton, Gives $25 Million to Another HBCU: Lincoln University

MacKenzie Scott has donated $25 million to Lincoln University, the nation’s first degree-granting historically Black university, continuing her substantial philanthropic commitment to HBCUs and organizations serving students of color. The gift takes on added significance given Scott’s own academic roots: she studied creative writing under Toni Morrison at Princeton University, where the Nobel Prize-winning novelist served as her thesis advisor a…