endowment
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It closed last year after its endowment came to an end.
From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2026
It has sold property, rented out dorms, trimmed a third of its faculty, cut courses and about doubled its endowment withdrawals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
Families earning $85,000 would pay a total of nearly $77,000 over four years at a private college subject to the endowment tax.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026
Support also came from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics through an endowment from the Kavli Foundation and its founder Fred Kavli.
From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026
The regents’ breath was taken away by Lawrence’s audacious request for funds at a time when the stock market crash still weighed on the university endowment.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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The Glass Menagerie
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