The "one big beautiful" tax-and-spending package President Donald Trump signed on Friday included several significant changes for higher education — among them, an increased tax on the endowment ...

Yale University's endowment reported a net 1.8% return for its fiscal year ended June 30. The endowment size fell to $40.7 billion from $41.4 billion the year before, as investment gains totaled $759 ...

It seems everyone has an opinion about what colleges and universities should do with their endowments. Use them to lower tuition! Let students attend for free! Improve facilities! Hire more professors ...

Endowments are usually compared using two figures: the total value and the value per student. But neither is really the correct figure to consider when attempting to find the ideal endowment size.

Instead of the existing flat 1.4% tax rate, there is now a new multi-tiered rate of up to 8%, with larger endowments subject to the highest rate. (Schools with fewer than 3,000 tuition-paying students ...

Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Instead of the existing flat 1.4% tax rate, there is now a new multi-tiered rate of up to 8%, with larger endowments subject to the highest ...