MOORHEAD – Minnesota State University Moorhead will announce the biggest gift in school history Tuesday and is renaming its School of Business after the donor.

School officials aren’t yet releasing the amount or who gave the gift, but spokesman Dave Wahlberg said they’re a family “with historic connections to the university.”

“This was something they wanted to do because they believe that they have the ability, they have the resources to help others, and they think one good way to do that is to invest it in higher education at a university that meant something to them and still obviously does,” he said Wednesday.

The second-largest gifts in school history are $2 million from Sanford Health for athletics scholarships and $2 million from Russ and Ann Gerdin for the Gerdin Wellness Center, foundation director Joy Crouch said in an email.

Tuesday’s gift is for endowed scholarships, which Wahlberg said would be particularly impactful at a school with a small endowment.

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“For generations now, students are going to have additional resources to get the education that can transform their lives,” he said.

MSUM’s endowment was $15.6 million as of June 30, 2014, Crouch said, which is up from previous years but still far behind neighboring institutions, as well as fellow schools in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities System.