Past Coverage

• Pressure Builds on Wealthy Colleges to Spend More of Their Assets - November 2, 2007
• Colleges' Endowments Earned 12 Percent but Still Trail 2007 Value - January 27, 2011
• After Year of Strong Endowment Gains, Colleges Brace for a Rougher Road - January 24, 2008
• Colleges Saw Endowment Gains of 17.2 Percent Last Year but Don't Expect a Repeat - January 24, 2008
• Endowments Savor Big Gains but Lower Their Sights - February 1, 2008

Campus Viewpoint

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Cornelius Vanderbilt had a vision of a place that would "contribute to strengthening the ties that should exist between all sections of our common country" when he gave $1 million to create a university in 1873. Today, that vision has been...