David Geffen, the entertainment industry executive, is giving $100 million to the University of California at Los Angeles for the institution to create a school for grades 6-12. The effort is in part to create new options for education, with scholarships for low-income students. But a key motivating factor is to expand high quality education options that would be available for the children of UCLA faculty members. Officials said that the availability of affordable, high quality education, is a key factor in faculty recruitment efforts.
With this gift and others in the past, Geffen will have donated a total $400 million to UCLA.