Karen Levenson, a major donor to the University of Maryland, has halted future funding in the wake of what she said in a letter to the university system’s Board of Regents was the “unacceptable” way it handled the aftermath of football player Jordan McNair’s death.
Levenson, a co-chairwoman of the $1.5 billion fundraising campaign launched this spring by the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, said in a letter obtained by The Baltimore Sun that while she has been “quiet about the extent of my very significant financial commitment” to the school, she now feels she must speak out.