Alison Byerly is president of Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

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The bill, largely pushed by legislators for Middletown where Wesleyan is located, would allow municipalities to tax ...

Although the recommendations are still evolving, education advocates are alarmed they are gaining traction at all.

In the last decade, Princeton has recorded an average return of 9.2 percent on the endowment. New Jersey could place an ...

An endowment is nothing like a savings account” that the university can simply “dip into” when the need arises.

Activists in St. Louis want Washington University—with its multibillion-dollar endowment—to pony up to help rebuild public ...

Key Points ・College endowments are typically tax-exempt, but a 2017 law imposed a 1.4% tax on investment income for a small group of wealthy private universities. ・A new proposal seeks to increase the ...