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...more than 100 of the total 9,000 non-faculty employees would be laid off. Harvard has laid off 275 employees, out of a staff of 13,000. The so-called Yale model of endowment management—characterized by significant exposure to nontraditional, illiquid asset classes including private equity??has come under attack in recent years as many university endowments, including Harvard’s, have suffered heavy losses with that strategy in the economic downturn. Yale’s endowment return has averaged 15.9 percent over the last 20 years, excluding fiscal year 2008, according...
Yale said it will exempt the first $200,000 of family assets—including home equity??from the assessment of need, but home equity beyond $200,000 would be included in the assessment...
...proposal seeks divestment from indirect holdings such as exchange-traded funds and index funds containing Sudan-linked companies. HDAG argues that there are many Sudan-free funds being established to provide alternatives to Harvard’s current holdings.The group does not propose divestment from hedge funds and private equity??investments through which Harvard may also hold stakes in firms tied to Sudan—due to a lack of similar investment options.Alice W. Handy, founder and president of Investure, an investment group that advises non-profit institutions, echoes Campbell’s sentiments. Handy, who served...
...comparing the worst performing subgroup, special education students, to the best, Asians, Fowler-Finn showed how “education equity?? could decrease even as test scores increased...
...This is not something new just in reaction to” the new incidents, Wood says. “It is a very strong commitment to diversity and equity??it is a very public commitment...