endowment
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CMU may not have the headline-grabbing power of say, Harvard University, Griffin’s alma mater, but it’s still a top-ranked school with resources, including a $3.5 billion endowment.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
The risk was exacerbated because the school has a relatively small endowment for a university of its size.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
He also introduced him to the chief of Princeton’s endowment, who invested $10 million in Thrive’s first institutional fund.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
A national brand-name institution with a $2.5 billion endowment and a storied 150-year tradition is suddenly beginning to flail.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
No matter what his or her genetic endowment, no one person’s immune system has enough different HLAs to identify every strain of every virus.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Yet Michigan, which boasts one of the nation’s largest endowments at about $22 billion, would be the most prominent school to take such a step.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
The first institutions to feel these headwinds have been lesser-known colleges with nominal endowments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Florino, of the Philanthropy Roundtable, said when schools spend money from restricted endowments they’re often playing a losing hand and can’t stop themselves from gambling their last few dollars.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
Nearly 200 private colleges borrowed from restricted endowments in 2025, up from 131 in 2021, according to estimates from Perspective Data Science, a higher-education financial consultant.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
In the north, in fact, the areas with the poorest natural endowments and the greatest susceptibility to drought were the most populous and successful.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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