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According to Dan Shore, a member of the Office of the Vice President for Finance, the Corporation’s warning was guided by “recent market trends”—namely, declining endowment value. The University’s holdings decreased in value from a peak of $19.2 billion in 2000 to $17.5 billion as of last July, the last date for which figures have been released...
According to Shore, the last time the endowment payout was held flat was 1984. Runaway inflation during the decade from 1972 to 1982 made for real decreases over that time period...
...Shore notes that in the long term, the University aims to spend 4.5 to 5.5 percent of the endowment’s market value annually...
...almost-beauty conveys emotional impact in a way no photograph can. In 1921 Nash was diagnosed with "war strain" and retreated to the Kent coast, near bleak Romney Marsh. He took refuge in geometry, applying a ruler to nature, and seeking out the regularity of fences, planks, horizons. The Shore (1923) shows the seawall at Dymchurch, which holds the water - in his imagination "cold and cruel" - back from the marsh. A stark composition of gray, blue, gold and terracotta, it shows no trace of life - human, animal or vegetable. Nash flirted with abstraction and Surrealism, asking in 1932 "whether...
Several new hires will shore up the department’s offerings in fields ranging from African languages to hip hop. And the department is gearing up for a major broadening of its scope, embodied by its new name—the African and African-American Studies Department. Concentrators will have the choice of a new track in African studies, offered in partnership with the Committee for African Studies...