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1 posted on 04/01/2025 10:00:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
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This wealth is highly concentrated, with 86% held by a fifth of surveyed universities.

A near perfect Pareto distribution.

2 posted on 04/01/2025 10:05:48 AM PDT by PGR88
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Eff these libtard indoctrination centers.

To paraphrase Marie Antoinette: Let them eat their preserved cake.


3 posted on 04/01/2025 10:05:48 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and don't wish to smile.)
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No college should receive government money.


4 posted on 04/01/2025 10:12:38 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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These tell the story:

HARVARD ENDOWMENT:


COLUMBIA ENDOWMENT:


IVY LEAGUE COLLEGE TUITIONS:

5 posted on 04/01/2025 10:15:57 AM PDT by rlmorel ("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
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Make them straight up taxable hedge funds.


6 posted on 04/01/2025 10:16:11 AM PDT by anton
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Columbia is not even close to one of the largest endowments...do some research before you post!


7 posted on 04/01/2025 10:17:20 AM PDT by oil_dude
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Yale has 42 Billion in endowments. Let that sink in. It isn’t all restricted. Most research for STEM is funded by NIH. Now, valid research, in my opinion, that benefits the nation and Americans should get funding from NIH but ridiculous funding on things like drunk pigeons, bees on cocaine or sexy goldfish, not so much.


8 posted on 04/01/2025 10:17:31 AM PDT by frogjerk
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A trillion here.
Maybe we should just take it and pay some national debt with it!
The Socialists want to confiscate private wealth, maybe we can turn around and confiscate Socialistic money.


10 posted on 04/01/2025 10:24:44 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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I smell B.S. You’re telling me a 14 bill endowment can’t generate income of 400 mill? What is the money just sitting in a safe? Even if it’s in something like real estate, I’m sure it’s generating rental income. I’m not buying it.


11 posted on 04/01/2025 10:25:29 AM PDT by ProudDeplorable (Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. ~ Ronald Reagan)
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Can anyone show me where the U.S. Constitution grants government the power to give money to colleges?


12 posted on 04/01/2025 10:25:35 AM PDT by Dalberg-Acton
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Columbia University has an operating budget of $5.3B excluding federal grants. They can close their new $400M shortfall by reducing 7.5% of their expenses, and never even touch the endowment. Is 7.5% cost cutting really such an extreme ask?


13 posted on 04/01/2025 10:28:56 AM PDT by NittanyLion
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These portfolios (endowments) can always be proportionately liquidated to raise cash. Also it has never been shown that the funding of private universities by Federal taxpayers is preferable, more efficient or more beneficial to the people than if there was no funding or if when such contracts are necessary, it was directed to state run institutions.


14 posted on 04/01/2025 10:29:03 AM PDT by allendale
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BTTT


15 posted on 04/01/2025 10:32:49 AM PDT by nopardons
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There’s an outcry about the loss of research, primarily medical, but I wonder how productive all this research really is. Publishing a paper, even if it is interesting to some or many, isn’t necessarily worthy of public funding. How many truly useful things come of their research? Honest question.


16 posted on 04/01/2025 10:39:35 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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Wanna tax the rich? Tax university endowment funds.


17 posted on 04/01/2025 10:40:06 AM PDT by Singermom
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These universities can fund their own student loans.


18 posted on 04/01/2025 10:53:34 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Burma Shave)
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They don’t need no taxpayer money ,LOL


20 posted on 04/01/2025 10:58:40 AM PDT by butlerweave
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LOL, Columbia was one the ditsy lib woman ripped up on tv.


21 posted on 04/01/2025 11:03:10 AM PDT by bgill
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If 95 to 97% of the money went to support American students then I could see it. but not for catering to foreigners...


22 posted on 04/01/2025 11:05:29 AM PDT by sit-rep
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bump


24 posted on 04/01/2025 1:33:10 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Did you ever meet a woke person that’s happy? There’s no such thing.” —Donald J. Trump)
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