• WarmRegards
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    29 days ago

    Columbia has a $15 billion endowment and they caved for $500 mil.

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        29 days ago

        I’d say complicit rather. They’ve not exactly been protecting their own students.

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      Endowments are ear marked. You don’t always get a blank cheque. It may have obligations tied to them.

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        29 days ago

        harvard has a hell of a lot more than just the largest endowment of any educational institution.