Perspectives Ivy League Schools Benefited from Taxpayers to the Tune of $41.59 Billion from 2010-2015 Spencer Irvine April 14, 2017 A report issued by Open The Books, a nonprofit watchdog group, revealed that Ivy League schools have benefited from taxpayer…
Faculty Lounge Ivy League Colleges have Big Endowments, about $2 Million Per Student Spencer Irvine October 19, 2016 From the Wall Street Journal: As of 2014, the eight Ivy League schools had 58,982 undergraduate students and total endowment…
Faculty Lounge Fossil Fuel Divestment Would Cost Universities 2%-12% of Endowments Spencer Irvine June 8, 2016 From the College Fix: Colleges that divest from fossil fuels would lose about two percent to 12 percent of their…
Faculty Lounge Congressman Propose Colleges use 25% of Endowment Funds to Aid Students Spencer Irvine May 15, 2016 It sounds like a good idea, considering that students can barely afford college now: U.S. Representative Tom Reed says he’s…
Faculty Lounge Sweet Briar College Struggling to Meet Enrollment Goals and Stay Afloat Spencer Irvine May 5, 2016 The college was going to close, but then it isn’t. Yet, the college did not reach their enrollment goals and…
Perspectives Academics Resist Nationalization… Of Their Endowments Malcolm A. Kline April 23, 2016 Normally, professors and college administrators see no end to their ever-expanding list of things that are “too important to be…
Perspectives Trick or Treat: Schools Hoard Endowment Money Malcolm A. Kline October 30, 2015 Most colleges and universities are quick to push for expanded student aid from taxpayers but forget that age-old maxim: charity…
Faculty Lounge Colleges Pressured to Divest from Fossil Fuels Spencer Irvine May 2, 2015 But, if American colleges and universities do divest from fossil fuels, then how can they increase their endowment funds? Fossil…
Faculty Lounge Taxpayers Hurt by Tax-Exempt Endowments Spencer Irvine April 13, 2015 As the Chronicle of Higher Education reported: “Most of the benefits, they say, result because endowments are exempt from capital-gains…