This donation won't help a bit with tuition, so you are right. But the scale of the problem is a little daunting. UO has 25,000 students, so if this donation were to be used to help reduce tuition, it would drop tuition by $280 per student for one term this year and then be gone. That's a tough sell to a donor. It could also be made into an endowment to help reduce tuition forever... by $3.50 a term per student!