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College Fund Raisers Worry About Impact of Student-Loan Debt on Giving

Fund raisers for higher education are increasingly worried that rising levels of student-loan debt will make alumni less likely to donate to their colleges, according to today’s Boston Globe. The worries pervade the ranks of fund raisers outside the richest institutions, whose affluence enables them to provide generous financial aid and to graduate students who lack debt and are thus more likely to give when alma mater comes calling. —Andrew Mytelka