With the Trump administration seeking to cut federal funding for colleges and universities, you might be wondering whether ...

Maura Bleech: Heather Lohr SGA Member of the Year, an award for a Student Government Association member in honor of 1994 graduate Heather Lohr, a former management and academic delegate who died after ...

With the Trump administration seeking to cut federal funding for colleges and universities, you might be wondering whether ...

Alongside threats of funding cuts, tax hikes and tariffs, pressure to divest from certain areas of investments is among the issues throwing university and college endowments into the spotlight.

Despite a substantial endowment, the university relies on federal grants for research and student aid, leading to a hiring freeze and reassessment of capital projects. Harvard University is under ...

In 2017, Congress passed a 1.4 percent tax on university endowments, which affected many of the nation's elite institutions. Mitchell and other experts said they believe some of the administration ...

The Cambridge, Mass., university has the largest endowment in the country — about $52 billion — from which it earned about $2.4 billion in fiscal 2024. President Trump on Tuesday floated ...

They have also sought to frame university-based research as imperative to the nation’s future, especially amid China’s rise. Many big schools do indeed have substantial endowments. Every ...

Harvard's endowment, a massive pool of invested funds, is the largest university endowment in the world. This financial powerhouse serves as a perpetual source of income, funding everything from ...

and if the feds wanted to turn a dial on this, it would be to increase the tax on endowments. That cuts right to the heart of university finances.” On the campaign trail, Trump promised “taxing, ...

However, Harvard has a university endowment worth more than $50 billion. Following Harvard’s decision, a government joint task force comprised of the U.S. Departments of Education, Health and ...

Because of its exempt status, Harvard for the most part does not have to pay taxes, though Mr. Trump’s 2017 tax bill instituted a tax on large university endowments that Republicans now want to ...