17 The Giveth and Taketh of College Giving

 

Sources

USC Rejects Harvey Weinstein’s $5M Women’s Program Donation (Hollywood Reporter)

Anxieties Over a Donor’s Role in a Faculty Search Boil Over at Case Western
(Chronicle of Higher Education)

U.C. Irvine Gets $200 Million Pledge for Integrative Medicine (Wall Street Journal)

Yale Endowment, Often a Pacesetter, Is a Laggard This Time (New York Times)

Harvard Endowment Chief: 8% Return Is “Disappointing” (Wall Street Journal)

 

Further Reading

Citadel’s Griffin Gives $125 Million to University of Chicago (Bloomberg)

Ballooning College Endowments Tempt Legislators Chasing Tax Dollars (New York Times)

A “Thoroughly Satisfactory and Permanent Remedy”: The Twentieth Century Invention of the American University Endowment (HistPhil)