Sentences with phrase «largest education endowment»

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Age - old methods of education and the cultivation of established sciences went on as before because of the large endowments which learned scholars had received at the hands of the Mughal emperors.

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.

• 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.

Schools vary with regard to how much aid they can provide to help pay private school tuition; some schools with large endowments can provide larger aid packages, and they also consider the other children you have enrolled in private education.

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.

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.

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.