With a large increase in the federal tax on university endowments income beginning this year costing Yale University $300 million, the university is reducing the size of its Ph.D. programs by ...

Can Harvard afford to tap its endowment to make up for lost federal funding? It’s complicated. The standoff between Trump and Harvard comes as the White House is seeking to flex control over higher ...

Brown’s $7 billion endowment is composed of nearly 4,000 individual funds. Many of these funds were donated for designated purposes — including supporting the work of departments across campus.

Harvard told Trump no. The question is, can it afford to? Shortly after the university formally refused the administration’s demands for broad oversight of its admissions, hiring and culture over ...

KU Endowment's offices on West Campus in Lawrence are pictured April 16, 2021. In a better-to-laugh-than-cry sort of way, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod often jokes during his updates ...

Colloquy Live: Join a live, online discussion with John S. Griswold Jr., a top official at Commonfund, which manages endowments for hundreds of colleges, about how to start or run an endowment in an ...

All eight of the institutions in the Ivy League saw their endowment returns gain 10% or more in fiscal year 2025. Colleges and universities are beginning to report the performance of their endowments ...

Gift: A gift is a voluntary, irrevocable, gratuitous transfer to, and acceptance by, University of Dayton of cash or cash equivalent, securities, property of value, or execution of an instrument that ...

Endowments have been around for a long time. Many universities have had them for decades, and they’re major revenue generators. Have you ever heard of someone overdrawing an endowment fund? Probably ...

One day in 1997, Paul Mannheim came home asking his wife Susan if he could contribute a portion of his life insurance payout ...

BOISE — The Idaho Board of Land Commissioners (Land Board) announced the approval of $117.3 million to endowment beneficiaries in Fiscal Year 2027. In a year-to-year comparison, this eclipses the ...