Donation from Hugh Culverhouse.
Alabama trustees voted Friday to return a record $21.5 million donation from controversial donor Hugh Culverhouse Jr. and rename the law school. Culverhouse had originally pledged a total of $26.5 million.
Culverhouse last week called for a boycott of Alabama -- school and state -- over the state's latest near-total abortion ban law.
The UA System quickly responded saying the university and Culverhouse have been in an ongoing dispute over the millions he has donated to the law school unrelated to the abortion legislation, vice chancellor for communications Kellee Reinhart said last week. In an emailed statement, Reinhart said Culverhouse asked the school to return $10 million, "repeating numerous demands about the operations of the University of Alabama School of Law."
Alabama trustees voted Friday to return a record $21.5 million donation from controversial donor Hugh Culverhouse Jr. and rename the law school. Culverhouse had originally pledged a total of $26.5 million.
Culverhouse last week called for a boycott of Alabama -- school and state -- over the state's latest near-total abortion ban law.
The UA System quickly responded saying the university and Culverhouse have been in an ongoing dispute over the millions he has donated to the law school unrelated to the abortion legislation, vice chancellor for communications Kellee Reinhart said last week. In an emailed statement, Reinhart said Culverhouse asked the school to return $10 million, "repeating numerous demands about the operations of the University of Alabama School of Law."