CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—David Rockefeller is giving $100 million to Harvard University to support international programs for undergraduates and to help the university's efforts to expand art education.
It is the largest gift by an alumnus in the university's 370-year history.
Rockefeller says international programs and the arts are important to him because of his own experiences at Harvard. Because of the university's foreign language requirement, he spent a summer in Germany in 1933 where he witnessed the rise of fascism.
It also was at Harvard where the 92-year-old first studied art history and developed a lifelong love of the arts.
Harvard President Drew Faust called the gift a "magnificent act of generosity."
Rockefeller graduated in 1936 and is the former chief executive of Chase Manhattan Bank.
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