While 10 schools, including Princeton, MIT, Yale and Harvard, were hit with a higher tax on their endowments’ investment earnings, Congress exempted wealthy small schools, including Swarthmore, ...

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(The Conversation) – With the Trump administration seeking to cut federal funding for colleges and universities, you might be wondering whether the endowments of these institutions of higher education ...

Columbia is one of the richest universities with a $14.8 billion endowment. Still, using these funds to cover federal funding cuts isn't as simple as smashing a piggy bank. Academic experts and former ...

Legendary Yale University endowment head David Swensen loved to riff on Benjamin Franklin’s line about life’s only certainties being death and taxes. True, Swensen would say, but the adage didn’t ...

Mr. Eaton is an economic sociologist and the author of “Bankers in the Ivory Tower.” President Trump has declared that this country’s leading universities are sites of “anti-American insanity.” He has ...

It’s a familiar refrain. There always seems to be a “but.” Naysayers often have the loudest voice, highlighting surface-level challenges while minimizing the hard work of building new programs and ...

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