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...About 35 percent of the patients served by the clinic have physically harmed themselves or contemplated suicide prior to seeking medical attention, Spack said...
Harvard’s endowment—which funded 38 percent of the University’s operating budget in 2009—fell from $37 billion to $26 billion this past year. Harvard and its peer institutions have been criticized for their investment strategies, which rely heavily on hedge funds, private equity firms, and illiquid assets...
According to Bloomberg, the value of Tufts’ endowment fell by 25 percent this past fiscal year, from roughly $1.5 billion to $1.1 billion, after accounting for gifts and payout. Bacow suggested in the article that Tufts would avoid putting money in hedge funds, which he compared to “black boxes,” requiring investors to relinquish control of assets and put their trust in external managers...
...have constrained the University’s cash flexibility, it has defended the long-term viability of its approach. Harvard Treasurer James F. Rothenberg noted in an interview with the Harvard Gazette last month that the University’s investment strategies generated an average annual return of 8.9 percent over the past 10 years, including last year’s financial crisis—far exceeding the annualized 1.5 percent return that would have been generated by a “plain vanilla” portfolio of stocks and bonds...
Thomas said that the Library Task Force review follows several years of declining library resources. Last year, for example, the library faced a 15 percent budget cut, and the system’s largest unit—Harvard College Library—eliminated over 20 staff positions. HCL also eliminated duplicate print subscriptions for digitally available content...