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

Though the timing is uncertain on when any of these proposals could surface, it could be as early as this spring.

The ideas affecting higher education are among many in circulation among House committees that are exploring ways to cover the cost of extending and expanding tax cuts passed in President Donald ...

As Republicans in Congress look for ways to slash spending, some legislators are floating new taxes on college scholarships, ...

US House Republicans are considering proposals to eliminate the tax-free status of scholarships and impose a 14% tax on ...

Through the “Double Down 2.0” effort, every gift made to the Pike County Endowment Fund, now extended until March 15, will be ...

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 ...

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

Nonprofits are beginning to coordinate across the sector to convince US lawmakers that their groups are worth the price of ...

Macy Meyer is a North Carolina native who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a BA in English and a second BA in Journalism. Macy is a Writer on the CNET How-To team, covering a variety of topics ...

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 ...