{"id":1869,"date":"2025-07-14T00:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1869"},"modified":"2025-07-14T00:51:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T00:51:38","slug":"a-1-billion-donation-will-make-school-tuition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=1869","title":{"rendered":"A $1 billion donation will make school tuition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a historic act of philanthropy, 93-year-old Ruth Gottesman has donated $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, ensuring free tuition for all students indefinitely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A former professor and long-serving trustee at the college, Gottesman made the transformative gift using Berkshire Hathaway stock inherited from her late husband, financier David \u201cSandy\u201d Gottesman, a longtime associate of Warren Buffett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">$1B donation makes New York medical school tuition free and transforms students\u2019&nbsp;lives<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>First year student Samuel Woo had been considering a career in cardiology so he would be able to pay off his medical school debt until the announcement this week of a generous donation that will remove tuition fees at his New York City school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, without the fear of crippling student debt, the 23-year-old whose parents emigrated from South Korea said Tuesday that he can afford to pursue his dream of providing medical services to people living on the streets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">13-year-old dies in July 4th fire just two weeks after beating cancer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u201cI was definitely very emotional and it changes a lot,\u201d said Woo, who had been working as a tutor and at a cafe to help cover his costs.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Ruth Gottesman, a former professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the widow of a Wall Street investor, announced Monday that she is donating $1 billion to the school in the Bronx. The gift means that four-year students immediately go tuition free, while everyone else will benefit in the fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyscan.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/26Montefiore-donation-03-fzpl-articleLarge-300x200.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8370\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a historic act of philanthropy, 93-year-old Ruth Gottesman has donated $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, ensuring free tuition for all students indefinitely. A former professor and long-serving trustee at the college, Gottesman made the transformative gift using Berkshire Hathaway stock inherited from her late husband, financier David&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}