Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, has announced a $20 million gift from alumni Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe ('81) and John Donahoe ('82) to enhance the representation, success, and leadership of historically underrepresented groups in STEM.

The gift, which honors the legacy of E.E. Just, an African-American trailblazer and Dartmouth alumnus (1907), will establish a faculty fellowship for members in the STEM disciplines; endow and further expand the E.E. Just Program, which was launched with a professorship in 1981 and has since expanded to provide opportunities for professional growth, mentorship, academic enrichment, and internship and research opportunities to historically underrepresented students pursuing degrees and careers in STEM fields; and provide academic enrichment funds and scholarship support to African-American students pursuing a degree in a STEM field.

Eileen Donahoe is a member of the Dartmouth board of trustees and executive director of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at Stanford University. John is the CEO of Nike and served on the Dartmouth board from 2003 to 2012.

"Talent is equally distributed, even if opportunity is not," said Dartmouth president Philip J. Hanlon ('77). "Through this extraordinary gift, Dartmouth will pursue programs that help create a racially and ethnically diverse talent pipeline for the next generation of engineers, doctors, computer scientists, and the professors who will teach them. Eileen and John believe that Dartmouth can lead on this national issue, and they are generously giving us the means to expand these proven programs."

"This year has served as a wake-up call for America on race," said Eileen Donahoe. "It was a year when we were forced to recognize the inadequacy of our own understanding of racial justice in the United States. We wanted to do something about the race issues we face in America."