Sentences with phrase «on college endowments»

Nathaniel, I'm not so sure about your post on college endowments.

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About 30 colleges and universities may pay a 1.4 percent tax on their endowment investment returns, including Harvard, Yale and small liberal arts colleges such as Amherst and Williams.

«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 trade group.

But doing so would miss a vital point: the endowment tax is an attack on academic freedom, and it is an attack on all colleges and universities.

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.

The Bowdoin Investment Committee, on which I serve as chair, has one goal: to earn the highest return on the College's endowment over time.

On Monday, Nathaniel wrote about college endowments and proposed legislation.

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

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.

It is crucial to keep in mind, however, that the proposed tax is not aiming at all college and university endowments — just the biggest ones at private institutions: the proposed 1.4 percent tax on investment earnings by endowments at private colleges that enroll at least 500 students and have assets of $ 250,000 per full - time student.

But they receive comparatively little attention relative to public colleges and the for - profit sector, perhaps because the conventional wisdom casts private colleges based on the profile of the most elite institutions in the sector, which have large endowments and charge high tuition to mostly wealthy students.

Most college endowments that have not gone overboard on illiquid investments and don't have a boatload of debt probably don't have to worry here.

Trump has also blamed the high cost of college tuition on universities and criticized how they spend their endowments.

Trump also revisited his idea of incentivizing colleges to keep their costs low by threatening to remove their tax - exempt status on large endowments.

Addressing the rising cost of college tuition on the campaign trail, Trump proposed taking away the preferential tax status enjoyed by university endowments as a means to incentivize cost controls.

Newspapers reporting on Campbell's retirement in 2011 noted that he grew the endowment, balanced the budget, and brought fiscal stability to the college.

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.

Sierra Club recently named them # 1 in their list of Top 10 Coolest Schools and earned an A -(actually a top score) on the Sustainable Endowments Institute's «College Sustainability Report Card 2008.»

After all, is the duty of the manager of those funds in a university or college endowment to find the best possible investment in pure financial terms, or based on both the economic and potentially unrealizable social return on campus?

He has served on committees and advisory boards and lectured for The Pennsylvania State University, Community College of Allegheny County and Duquesne University, and has helped establish scholarships and endowment funds.

Many colleges, however, are sitting on billions of dollars in endowment money and hire the best financial advisors to grow those endowments.

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.

The college Democratic organization at Michigan State University, for example, recently began calling on the university's endowment to withdraw its roughly $ 50 million investment.