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...running into a lot of trouble with the same issues, like fuel charges and commodity prices,” said Megan O’Neill, associate director of restaurant operations at Boston College (BC). O’Neill specifically referenced flour and milk prices. Food prices have increased 75 percent since 2005, according to a recent article in The Economist. At BC the increase in food prices is directly passed on to the students and does not diminish the food’s quality. The college has “a little more leeway than Harvard...
...Remember this moment with these people,” he intoned. “When you’ve forgotten 90 percent of what’s on the front page, when you’ve forgotten about that test you did poorly on, when you see blue flashing lights in your rearview mirror. Remember this...
Harvard told the senators in its response that 83 percent of the University’s endowment is restricted by terms attached to donor gifts, but a significant portion of its coffers—both restricted and unrestricted—can be used for financial...
Princeton and Stanford Universities, which both posted responses to the questionnaire on their Web sites, reported endowments with a higher percentage of unrestricted funds—30 percent for Princeton and 25 percent for Stanford—than Harvard’s 17 percent...
...University of Southern California, Johns Hopkins University, and Columbia University rounded out the top five institutions. In total, American institutions of higher education received nearly $30 billion in donations, an increase of 6.3 percent over the previous year...