Local Donates $2 Million To Academia

A Hermosa Beach philanthropist has given the El Camino College Foundation $2 million, the largest single gift in its 66-year history. The donation will fund the new Noble Endowed Chair for Business.

Residents of Manhattan Beach are eligible to attend El Camino, a public two-year junior college.

Here's more information on the new endowment, what it will fund, how it will do that and what contributions the Noble family has made to academia through the years.