Sentences with phrase «from college endowments»

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Another possible problem provision is one that would exempt colleges from a new endowment tax if they have fewer than 500 students paying tuition.

Leslie earned her BA in economics from Boston College and currently serves on the Board of Directors for US SIF, the membership association for professionals, firms, institutions and organizations engaged in sustainable, responsible, and impact investing, as well as the Advisory Board of the Intentional Endowments Network.

What Parents Need to Know: We may expect to hear more from colleges about exactly how they use endowment funds to specifically help students.

Another would exempt a small tuition - free college in Kentucky from a new tax on endowments.

Through a $ 20 million grant from the state, an endowment will forever fund college tuition for Syracuse students.

The endowment provides free college tuition to students graduating from the Syracuse City School District.

Earlier this year, the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences received a $ 3 million endowment from a Raleigh couple to help rural students win admission to the university.

Currently, college and university endowments, and the profits made from investing those endowment funds, are not subject to an excise tax.

He persuaded the college to liberate part of its endowment from its traditional, highly conservative strictures, and it is this «Discretionary Portfolio» which has been tracked by David Chambers and Elroy Dimson of Cambridge's Judge Business School.

A record - breaking $ 50 million gift from alumnus Gary R. Carlson, M.D., will be used to expand Oregon State University's Small Animal Hospital and establish an endowment fund within the College of Veterinary Medicine.

School of the Arts exhibitions and programs in the Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery are supported, in part, by the Purchase College Foundation and through an endowment from Richard and Dolly Maass.

It comes after a call by alumni, students and staff for the college to fully divest its endowment from fossil fuel companies.

Olin College, which was founded in 1997 as a free engineering school, switched from offering full tuition to half tuition after suffering endowment losses during the recession.

This notion underlies a lot of campaigns, ranging from Ecuador's effort to raise enough money from international contributors to «leave the oil in the soil» under its splendid Yasuní National Park to Bill McKibben's «Do the Math» campaign to rid university and college endowments of fossil fuel investments.

Than exactly one year later, February 8, 2014, the Hilltop Monitor, published an opinion editorial I wrote in their «Sound Off» section to try to persuade the college to divest its endowment from fossil fuels.

Beginning as a movement in 2011, young people on campuses across the US were determined that their college or university should not be putting money into fossil fuels, and urged their schools to divest their endowments away from fossil fuel companies.

National environmental lobbyists are ramping up campaigns at college campuses urging the «divestment» of natural resources from university endowments, falsely equating investments in energy production to profiting off of environmental «wreckage.»

I then had a phone conversation with Dr. David Sallee, President of William Jewell College in August, 2013, personally asking him to do what he can to divest Jewell's endowment from fossil fuels.

I was a college freshman in 1984 and was part of a takeover of the Tufts University administration building to demand divestment from endowment companies doing business in South Africa during the apartheid regime.