ITHACA (AP) -- The Cornell University School of Hotel Administration is getting a $3 million gift from the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation for the school's new Marriott Student Learning Center.

The new center will reconfigure the school's current NestlDe Library and George B. Mallory '54 Student Lounge into a facility designed to enhance student learning in the digital age.

The Marriott Foundation focuses on education, youth, and human services and is one of the largest donors in the school's history. Both the Foundation and Marriott International made contributions in 1989 to name the J. Willard Marriott Executive Education Center, adjacent to the Statler Hotel at Cornell.

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