Sentences with phrase «for education endowment»

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«An excise tax on the endowments of some private colleges and universities, regardless of how many or how few institutions it affects, is a remarkably bad idea that takes money that would otherwise be used for student aid, research, and faculty salaries and sends it to the Department of the Treasury to finance corporate tax cuts,» said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education, a higher education traEducation, a higher education traeducation trade group.

«It is our intention that this endowment provide more students with access to higher education and support the goal of enhancing facilities to make Saint Mary's a compelling choice for both students and members of the academic community,» said Paul Sobey, then - Empire CEO.

«Even though public universities are not affected by the endowment tax, they are very much opposed to it, for fear it would set a precedent that would be applied to them in the future,» Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education told NPR in December.

For their part, Congressional Republicans insist that the tax was designed, not to punish a particular subset of colleges, but to encourage them to use their endowments to lower the cost of education.

The Pope Center for Higher Education Policy debates the question, «Should colleges be required to pay out a percentage of their endowments?»

The endowments of the wealthiest universities should be taxed to fund a common purse for education that can be spent on tuition tax credits to help all Americans afford some form of post-high school education, which is what we need today as the old student loan model becomes burdensome for young people.

The TU on what New York should do with its $ 4.2 billion in financial settlement cash: «Put some into the huge one - time expense of replacing the Tappan Zee Bridge — and perhaps make it better — and use the rest to create an endowment to boost long - term funding for education.»

$ 10 million for the Say Yes to Education endowment.

Jamie Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said top - tier institutions (with their large endowments) are able to increase need - based scholarships but are traditionally reluctant to lower their academic standards.9 Terry Hartle, the American Council on Education's senior vice president, justified this policy, saying colleges should hesitate to admit «academically underprepared» students.

Clara Lovett, the American Association for Higher Education's president, warned that less prestigious state universities «don't have private endowments, they're getting less and less financial support from the public sector, particularly state legislatures — and it's only going to get worse.

• Higher education — fiddle with loan interest rates and repayment periods, seek ways to reintroduce a private market for student loans; use the tax code to incentivize institutions with large endowments to lower tuition costs; and create a friendlier environment for for - profit providers.

His «21st Century Land Grant» plan would create a $ 5 billion endowment that he estimates would provide about $ 2 billion over 10 years for postsecondary education.

«Bear in mind that scholarship dollars travel out of the district whereas endowments tend to work for the benefit of the community more directly advancing education at home and in the school.

The Republican governor proposed setting aside $ 300 million from the Tennessee Education Lottery to fund an endowment that would cover all tuition and fees to two - year institutions for all graduating high school seniors.

A little more checking, and I found that the study was paid for by a small endowment at Rutgers called the Daniel Tanner Foundation which describes itself as «advancing American public education, specifically with regard to the democratizing function and design of the curriculum of nonselective elementary schools and nonselective secondary schools of the comprehensive type.

However, higher education takes multiple hits in the House bill such as taxing endowment earnings that go towards school advancement, reducing incentives for charitable giving, and eliminating student loan interest deductions that benefited 12 million borrowers in 2014.

Not only is that spending protected for the course of this Parliament, but we are working through the education endowment fund to ensure that we understand how that investment can have the biggest impact for disadvantaged children.

No, the $ 15 - $ 20 billion digital endowment and related efforts would not substitute for much - needed initiatives in areas such as early childhood education or poverty - fighting.

However, if you are still alive when the policy matures, you're guaranteed a payout, called an endowment, that you can use to pay for a child's college education, retirement, or other expenses.

Many people choose to use their endowment to pay for a child's education, largely because the endowment money isn't counted against financial aid eligibility.

Generous endowment support is provided by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.

Longo has received awards from the National Endowments for the Arts, Cooper Union, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Institute for International Education (Fulbright).

Generous endowment support is provided by the Keith Haring Foundation School and Youth Programs Fund, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Skadden, Arps Education Programs Fund, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs at the New Museum.

Alice Walton has a track record for supporting art education for children: the precedent she set at Crystal Bridges inspired the local Walker Foundation to contribute a $ 10 million endowment to provide funding to local schools to cover costs for visits to the museum and learning sessions for students and teachers in the museum's high - tech interactive education studio.

The Barnes Foundation smART Fund for Education, established by GSK, is an endowment that provides generous annual support for K — 8 education outreach programs in the School District of PhilEducation, established by GSK, is an endowment that provides generous annual support for K — 8 education outreach programs in the School District of Phileducation outreach programs in the School District of Philadelphia.

The Common Sense column on Saturday, about how poor financial decisions involving its endowment forced the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science to stop offering education free of tuition, misstated the total value of assets that hedge funds manage.

Since Peter Cooper's heirs gave the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art the land under the Chrysler Building in 1902, the school's endowment has enabled it to offer students a high - quality, tuition - free education through two world wars, the Great Depression and multiple stock market crashes and financial crises.

At the William Penn Foundation, a leading philanthropy with an endowment greater than $ 2 billion, she was responsible for numerous initiatives addressing social and environmental challenges in America's fifth largest city and for designing programs in education, public space, the arts and the environment.

For most of that time, the school was able to offer a free education because income from its endowment — it owns valuable Manhattan real estate, including the land under the Chrysler Building — covered expenses.

Generous endowment support for Education Programs is provided by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, the Annenberg Foundation, Laurie M. Tisch, Steve Tisch, Krystyna O. Doerfler, Lise and Michael Evans, and Burton P. and Judith B. Resnick.

«Sustainability is the most precious endowment,» he says, explaining his reasons for participating in RMI's June workshop on campus climate initiatives - a follow up to research mentioned previously.The workshop, which took place in Denver, June 2 - 4, is the culmination of «Accelerating Campus Climate Initiatives,» a two - year project created and facilitated by Rocky Mountain Institute in collaboration with the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

Oxford University and its colleges, which have an endowment wealth of # 3.8 bn, the largest of any higher education institution in the UK, is currently conducting a staff - only consultation, after almost 2,000 students and academics joined a campaign calling for divestment.

In 2010, he chaired for Washington Governor Christine Gregoire her Higher Education Funding Task Force, and in 2011 he helped advocate for the successful adoption by the legislature of the task force's recommendations, including tuition - setting authority and increased accountability for the state's public universities and for the nation's first private - public funded endowment to enable more students to attend college.

An endowment plan will help him to pay for the various expenses like his children's education, marriage, etc at various points in time.

Gerber's endowment life insurance policy is called a College Plan, on the assumption that you'll use the policy's proceeds to pay for your child's education.

However, if you are still alive when the policy matures, you're guaranteed a payout, called an endowment, that you can use to pay for a child's college education, retirement, or other expenses.

Whether one is a salaried person or a professional with a regular flow of income, an endowment plan is for everyone who has a continuous source of earning and plans to save for his future goals like retirement or other major expenses like child's education.

In the light of the above, if you want to enrol your child for higher education 10 - 15 years from now, you need to make a provision for the same by investing your savings in an endowment plan like Edelweiss Tokio Life — Wealth Builder that will allow your initial investment to grow using the principle of compounding.

LIC Jeevan Tarun is an endowment plan which is aimed to secure children's future for higher education and other needs.

If you, as a working woman, have dreams for yourself like owning a house and a car and chipping in for giving your child a quality education, endowment plans are ideal for you.

Max Life - Life Gain Premier is a traditional participating endowment insurance plan helps you build a corpus that can be utilized to fulfill key milestones of your life, such as children's education / marriage, enjoy post-retirement life, etc.. A systematic savings plan which offers financial protection for your family also.

In this article you will learn how child endowment plans helps your child get the money needed for a good education.

Earnings from the combined endowment may be distributed to the Cockrum Compassionate Care Fund and used to support annual operating costs for the Sara & Albert Reuben Partners in Health Education Initiative.