Columbia is one of the richest universities with a $14.8 billion endowment. Still, covering federal funding cuts isn’t as ...

Colleges and universities in the U.S. have raised more money through bond issuance in 2025 so far than in any year over the ...

The largest private foundations should not be exempt from taxation as Congress debates extending the 2017 tax act.

The question arises as Columbia University’s recent leadership changeover has placed the deal with the Trump administration on rocky ground.

Funds must be spent in specific ways and won't fill the gap left by cuts, says Elizabeth Popp Berman of the University of ...

The sector is worried about more risk, fewer resources and a disincentivized donor base as Republicans eye a bigger levy on ...

Proposals include raising the current 1.4 percent rate to as much as 35 percent and punishing colleges that serve high ...

Republicans are targeting university endowment tax hikes to help reduce the national deficit and as a potential lever to ...

“But clearly that’s not what’s going on.” The endowment’s plight is emblematic of the colossal shift in foreign policy that is taking place in the second Trump administration, as the ...

Taran Samarth, a graduate student organizer with the Sumud Coalition, which put together Wednesday’s complaint, said the university’s endowment policies showed the Palestine exception in action.

An increased endowment tax would divert resources away from “schools’ missions of teaching, research, and public service,” according to NACUBO Vice President of Policy and Research Liz Clark.