Duke’s Michael Munger writes for the American Institute for Economic Research about a legislative folly. The North Carolina General Assembly is considering taking some of the current budget surplus and…
Jenna Robinson’s latest Martin Center column explains the role university foundations can play in enabling waste, fraud, and abuse on campus. By now, most Americans are aware of the widespread…
George Leef’s latest Martin Center column focuses on the Republican tax plan’s potential implications for colleges and universities. On November 2, House Republican leaders unveiled their tax reform plan. A…
Jenna Robinson of the Martin Center uses her latest column to probe tax exemptions for university-owned property. Connecticut legislators made headlines last year when they introduced a bill to tax…
Now that the dust has settled from North Carolina’s 2015 N.C. legislative session, Becki Gray offers her assessment of lawmakers’ main accomplishments this year for the next edition of Carolina…
Universities with large endowments face criticism from those who believe portions of those endowments should be used to help offset tuition increases. Some of those critics want the federal government…
The Triangle Business Journal reported last week that university endowments in North Carolina increased by $1.8 billion from 2013 to 2014. Of that increase, approximately $549 million was in the…
Jim Reynolds, associate professor of geology and WENOCA Sierra Clubber reportedly guided Brevard College’s Greens club to petition for the school to re-invest the carbon-footprint producing portions of its portfolio.…
Wow. Here’s another example of how a university can willfully ignore a donor’s intent when a generous benefactor contributes property or money. Bottom line is this: Be very, very specific…
Almost a decade in the making — stretching all the way back to the defeated arena referendum — it should be clear that the grand plan to festoon Uptown with…
Lately, there has been a squabble (I think it’s more than a kerfuffle and less than a battle) over college endowment spending, with some people (and also some politicians) contending…
Today’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece discussing the tendency among wealthy alums to donate large sums to colleges other than their alma maters. I knew a man (now…