Marshall president and wife make $50M gift to university to promote eliminating student debt

Marshall University-Gift - (Sholten Singer | The Herald-Dispatch)

Marshall University President Brad Smith and his wife, Alys Smith, have made a $50 million gift to the university to promote a program aimed at eliminating student debt, the school said Tuesday.

The gift is the largest ever given to the public research university and the largest given by any sitting university president to their own institution, the school said.