The University of South Dakota Foundation says it guaranteed a donor only that his name would be on the business-school building, not the business school’s operating program. So another donor-intent legal battle in higher education is under way, according to the Volante, the campus’s student newspaper.

Walter Buhler, a university alumnus who died in 1998, donated $9.2-million to the foundation, with $5.7-million for scholarships for business-school students and $1.7-million for a new business-school building.

A donation in October 2006 by T. Denny Sanford, given in the name of Miles Beacom, changed the name of the business-school program to the Beacom School of Business, although the building of the school still bears the Buhler name, according to the foundation’s Web site.

Now Mr. Buhler’s widow, Lucy Buhler, wants the $1.7-million back to give to another charity. According to the article, instead of returning the donation to Ms. Buhler, the foundation filed a complaint in Clay County Circuit Court. —Erin Strout