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Yale’s Endowment Selling Private Equity Stakes as Trump Targets Ivies

Reporter USJune 10, 2025

Yale University’s famed endowment has been trying to offload one of the largest portfolios of private equity investments ever in a single sale, a move that reflects the pressures on both Wall Street and higher education under the Trump administration. The Ivy League school has sought buyers for up to $6 billion in stakes in […]

The World Is Wooing U.S. Researchers Shunned by Trump

Reporter USMay 14, 2025

Help Wanted. Looking for American researchers. As President Trump cuts billions of federal dollars from science institutes and universities, restricts what can be studied and pushes out immigrants, rival nations are hoping to pick up talent that has been cast aside or become disenchanted. For decades, trying to compete with American institutions and companies has […]

Blackstone President Donates 5 Million to Tel Aviv University

Blackstone President Donates $125 Million to Tel Aviv University

Reporter USMay 7, 2025

As Israel faces a doctor shortage, Jonathan Gray, the president of the investment firm Blackstone, and his wife, Mindy, are donating $125 million to Tel Aviv University’s health science and medical school. The donation, through the Grays’ foundation, is the largest ever to Tel Aviv University, and is expected to allow the medical school enrollment […]

Who Decides How Much You Pay for College? Here’s How Tuition Costs Are Set.

Reporter USMay 1, 2025

Last month, four Republicans from the House and Senate sent letters to the presidents of Ivy League schools demanding years of data about how they decide what to charge. These institutions, the letters said, “establish the industry standard for tuition pricing, creating an umbrella effect for all colleges and universities to justify higher tuition costs […]

How Colleges Are Turning Athletes Into Influencers

Reporter USApril 27, 2025

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is known for its sports programs, but now it has something else to offer its athletes: an opportunity to become an influencer. Sapna Maheshwari, a business reporter who covers social media for The New York Times, returned to her alma mater to learn more.

Harvard’s War With Trump Forces Question of How Endowments Should Be Spent

Reporter USApril 26, 2025

There are proposals from Republicans in Congress to increase the tax on large endowments, potentially to 14 percent, much higher than the 1.4 percent put in place eight years ago. Assuming a 10 percent return, that would leave Harvard with a tax bill of about $742,000,000, roughly equal to what it spent on financial aid […]

Herbert J. Gans, 97, Dies; Upended Myths on Urban and Suburban Life

Reporter USApril 21, 2025

Herbert J. Gans, an eminent sociologist who studied the communities and cultural bastions of America up close and shattered popular myths about urban and suburban life, poverty, ethnic groups and the news media, died on Monday at his home in Manhattan. He was 97. His death was confirmed by his son, David Gans. A refugee […]

How Should You Invest in 529 College Savings Plans During Market Swings?

Reporter USApril 13, 2025

Investing in choppy markets, especially with an unpredictable president at the helm, can be distressing. It can be even more so if you are relying on these investments to pay for something as important as your child’s college tuition, and you need the money in the foreseeable future. Plenty of busy parents found themselves in […]

Trump’s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn

Reporter USMarch 31, 2025

President Trump’s tariffs could drive up prices. His efforts to reduce the federal work force could increase unemployment. But ask economists which of the administration’s policies they are most concerned about and many point to cuts to federal support for scientific research. The Trump administration in recent weeks has canceled or frozen billions of dollars […]

Netflix’s Reed Hastings Gives Million to Bowdoin for A.I. Program

Netflix’s Reed Hastings Gives $50 Million to Bowdoin for A.I. Program

Reporter USMarch 24, 2025

The Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings wants more researchers and students to ask deep questions about artificial intelligence and its potential to upend human norms. To that end, Mr. Hastings has donated $50 million to Bowdoin College, his alma mater, to create a research initiative on “A.I. and Humanity” — the largest gift to the liberal […]

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