{"id":296842,"date":"2026-09-30T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296842\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T12:18:16","slug":"carnegie-mellon-university-receives-donation-for-pittsburgh-miami-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/296842\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnegie Mellon University receives donation for Pittsburgh, Miami campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carnegie Mellon University receives $3 billion donation for Pittsburgh and Miami campuses<\/p>\n<p>Carnegie Mellon University announced a $3 billion gift from Citadel founder and CEO, marking the largest individual donation in higher education history.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790770696_985_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Carnegie Mellon University announced early Wednesday morning that it has received a historic $3 billion donation from Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin, the largest individual gift in the history of higher education.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Of the $3 billion, $1 billion will be allocated to CMU&#8217;s Oakland campus in Pittsburgh, with $500 million supporting the university&#8217;s highest priorities and $500 million invested in the School of Computer Science. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The remaining $2 billion will fund the creation of CMU Miami, a new campus designed to pioneer the next era of American innovation.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The Miami campus will be organized around societal challenges rather than academic majors to prepare future leaders for a rapidly changing world. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Once completed, it will support more than 3,500 students. Construction is expected to begin in 2027, with plans to enroll students in 2028.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">CMU President Farnam Jahanian released a statement, saying, &#8220;Together, we have an opportunity to extend the very qualities that have long distinguished Carnegie Mellon \u2014 our agility, creativity, interdisciplinary culture and relentless focus on impact \u2014 to build a new model for higher education that meets the urgency of this moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carnegie Mellon University receives $3 billion donation for Pittsburgh and Miami campuses Carnegie Mellon University announced a $3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44653,122704,17118,13266,7933,122699,122703,7820,7907,15868,227,22306,9316,94,7327,122701,16678,122700,116889,73,75,74,122702,6984,10603],"class_list":["post-296842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-agility","tag-american-innovation","tag-campus","tag-carnegie","tag-carnegie-mellon-university","tag-citadel","tag-citadel-founder","tag-cmu","tag-creativity","tag-donation","tag-education","tag-gift","tag-high-education","tag-history","tag-impact","tag-interdisciplinary-culture","tag-miami","tag-miami-campus","tag-oakland-campus","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-relentless-focus","tag-student","tag-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}