University of Alabama to Refund $26 Million Gift After Donor Calls on Students to Boycott Abortion Ban

The University of Alabama board of trustees voted Friday to give back a $26.5 million donation from a philanthropist.
University of Alabama to Refund $26 Million Gift After Donor Calls on Students to Boycott Abortion Ban
University of Alabama employees remove the name of Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr. off the School of Law sign in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on June 7, 2019. Blake Paterson/Photo/AP
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TUSCALOOSA—The University of Alabama board of trustees voted on June 7 to give back a $26.5 million donation from a philanthropist who recently called on students to boycott the school over the state’s new abortion ban.

Hugh F. Culverhouse Jr., a 70-year-old real estate investor and lawyer, had already given $21.5 million to the university after his pledge last September with the rest still to come. But in a news release last week, he urged students to participate in a boycott of the school.