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...much fanfare, Princeton University announced last month that it would not raise undergraduate tuition for the coming year. According to The New York Times, several factors—including alumni donations, the 20 percent return of endowment investments, and the decision by trustees to spend more of the endowment??€”enabled Princeton to implement this freeze. Certainly, Princeton is to be commended for using surplus financial resources to ameliorate the massive burden high tuition rates impose on students and their families, especially those from middle- and low-income households. But we believe that extra available dollars at universities...
Only a small portion of Harvard’s holdings—less than one-fifth of the entire endowment??€”must be publicly disclosed under federal regulations. The SEC requires the school to list its holdings in stocks traded on domestic exchanges as well as investment vehicles such as the iShares fund...
...results may not remain as strong in the future, vice president for finance Elizabeth Mora and treasurer James F. Rothenberg cautioned in another letter preceding the report. They expressed doubt about the capacity of future revenue growth to keep pace with inflation. They also expressed concern about the endowment??€™s future growth rate and federal funding for research.CASH OUTFLOWHarvard’s expenditures increased by about $240 million this year, primarily as a result of increased employee benefit costs and changes in space and utility fees, according to the report.The cost of employee benefits—including health...
Richard, the Cambridge vice chancellor, told the Financial Times she hoped the restructuring of the endowment??€™s management will encourage donors to open their checkbooks and contribute to Cambridge’s fund...
...dean wrote that decapitalization—withdrawing more money from the endowment??€”would lead to an infusion of funds that are a "short-term solution to a long-term need...