Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, has received a $10 million gift from Darla Moore and her husband, Richard Rainwater, to enhance its School of Education's leadership and teacher education programs. The school will be renamed in honor of Moore's father, a 1949 graduate of Clemson who committed his adult life to the field of education as a teacher, coach, and principal.

The university will use the gift — the largest-ever to Clemson from an individual — to establish two endowed chairs in the educational leadership program for school administrators and two endowed professorships in the teacher education program for classroom teachers. In addition, it will provide for graduate assistantships and the redesign of educational leadership and teacher quality curricula.

"Even if he were not my father, I would find it appropriate to see his name attached to a school of education, where many of the nation's future teachers and principals will launch their careers," said Moore, a partner in the private investment firm Rainwater Inc. "He has played an important role in the lives of many young people in this state."