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Tag Archives: University Endowments

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  • 24
    Feb

    2010

    Rainy Days in Higher Ed

    Higher education is an industry like any other. There is no sheltered ivory tower rising above real world financial pressure: it requires funding and responds to cycles of supply and demand. That’s...

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  • 16
    Feb

    2009

    Book TV on University Endowments

    Things have changed, haven’t they? Months ago, we were arguing over universities hoarding their endowments even as tuition prices increased. Then endowments took massive hits and even Harvard terminated...

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  • 20
    Oct

    2008

    Don’t judge a college endowment by its...

    Forcing schools to spend more of their endowments on easing tuition burdens would put nonprofits on a slippery slope. In a Los Angeles Times Op-Ed, Cambridge authors Burton A.Weisbrod, Jeffrey P. Ballou...

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  • 15
    Sep

    2008

    Economic Principles on Mission and Money

    On Mission and Money, Economic Principles had some kind words yesterday. ‘The book appears at a propitious time. Just last week, Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Peter Welch (D-Vermont) convened...

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  • 9
    Sep

    2008

    Do Universities Spend Enough of their Endowments?

    For the most part, they’re nonprofits. So can universities demonstrate their benefit to society? A New York Times article yesterday reported on a meeting between university presidents and two members...

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  • 29
    Jul

    2008

    University Endowments

    What can’t they buy? Did your university have a climbing wall, hot tubs, or en-suite bathrooms? Mine sure didn’t. And I didn’t miss ’em. Then again, it didn’t have a massive...

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