Todd Ely works for a university that has an endowment and receives federal research funding. With the Trump administration seeking to cut federal funding for colleges and universities, you might ...

The university’s funds, as the historian Bruce Kimball has noted, are the oldest perpetual investments in the United States. At $53.2 billion, Harvard’s endowment is the largest in the world ...

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

KU Endowment's offices on West Campus in Lawrence are pictured April 16, 2021. In a better-to-laugh-than-cry sort of way, University of Kansas Chancellor Douglas Girod often jokes during his ...

Harvard University’s endowment, worth $53.2 billion at the end of its 2024 fiscal year, for example, consists of roughly 14,600 distinct funds. All told, money distributed from endowments ...

Todd L. Ely, a professor of public administration at the University of Colorado Denver, explains what endowments are and the constraints placed on them. Endowments are pools of financial ...