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Bloomberg Gives Johns Hopkins $1 Billion for Graduate Aid

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Michael Bloomberg — an entrepreneur, former New York City mayor, and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies — donated $1 billion to his alma mater, where he served as chair of the board of trustees from 1996-2002. For medical students, scholarship funds will eliminate debt burdens the university has been trying to reduce for years.

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Where Did Gavin Newsom Go to College?

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California Born and Raised The two-term governor is a fourth-generation San Franciscan and grew up in the city, attending Redwood High School in Marin County, California, before getting accepted to Santa Clara University (SCU), a private, Jesuit school, on a partial baseball scholarship to study political science. This is Santa Clara.

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Where Did Pete Buttigieg Go to College?

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After graduating from Harvard, Buttigieg attended the University of Oxford on a Rhodes scholarship, pursuing a bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics. At Harvard, Buttigieg was heavily involved in the IOP, ultimately being elected president of the Student Advisory Committee in December 2002. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,