Sentences with phrase «higher education endowment»

Other donors matched it, and the UT System Board of Regents allocated $ 16 million from the Permanent University Fund, a higher education endowment seeded with proceeds from university - owned oil lands in West Texas.

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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.

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

Now the Singapore - born, U.S. - trained materials scientist will be addressing the fault lines in global higher education by becoming the founding president of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), a new graduate university in Saudi Arabia with a $ 10 billion endowment and aspirations to become a world - class research institution.

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.

In the higher grades (5 - 8), one of the most impactful ways that Ariel teaches real - world financial literacy is by having students invest real money in the stock market; the Ariel Education Initiative provides each incoming first - grade class with a $ 20,000 endowment.

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.

State lawmakers say they want to create an education endowment fund to help pay high - performing teachers more money.

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.

Figure 1 below compares the reported returns of the very largest higher - education endowments (more than $ 1 billion) which are members of the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO), with model Vanguard Institutional Advisory Services ® (VIAS ™) portfolios.

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.

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.

«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.

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.