{"id":3140,"date":"2025-08-04T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3140"},"modified":"2025-08-04T18:04:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T18:04:27","slug":"thanks-to-a-1-billion-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3140","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to a $1 billion donation,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>$1 Billion Donation Ends Tuition at Albert Einstein College of Medicine<\/strong><br>Ruth Gottesman, 93, donated $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, making tuition free for all students forever. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She used Berkshire Hathaway stock she inherited from her late husband, David \u201cSandy\u201d Gottesman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Immediate Impact on Students<\/strong><br>Current and future students will benefit from this gift. First-year students Samuel Woo and Jade Andrade said they feel \u201cimmense relief\u201d and hope free tuition will allow more low-income students to study medicine \u201cwithout the burden of debt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Addressing High Costs and Community Needs<\/strong><br>Tuition now costs $63,000 a year, with many graduates owing over $200,000. The college serves one of New York\u2019s poorest areas, making the gift especially significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sustaining Diversity and Excellence<\/strong><br>School leaders believe the endowment\u2019s earnings will \u201csustain the tuition-free program indefinitely,\u201d attracting diverse and motivated students. This gift follows other large donations to medical schools, like $300 million to NYU Grossman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$1 Billion Donation Ends Tuition at Albert Einstein College of MedicineRuth Gottesman, 93, donated $1 billion to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, making tuition free for all students forever. She used Berkshire Hathaway stock she inherited from her late husband, David \u201cSandy\u201d Gottesman. Immediate Impact on StudentsCurrent and future students will benefit from this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3141,"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-3140","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\/3140","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=3140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3140\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}