How Harvard and Other Colleges Manage Their Endowments

College is expensive, but there is one place in higher education where there's no shortage of money – endowments. There's more than $616 billion worth of endowments assets in the U.S. Lawmakers are starting to questions why tuition is still rising if some schools have billions of dollars.

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How Harvard and Other Colleges Manage Their Endowments

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Do you think schools should spend more of their endowments? Should university donors be taxed on their donations? Let us know in the comments below.

[MyGoBanana]

Give this reporter a raise and let her make more videos like this!

[F_And]

This is what a real reporter looks like. Unbiased, researched & straight to the point.

[MissKimmy]

The amount of research done for this video is crazy impressive

[oskarmika]

Lets face the truth, this is business, and people are overpaying for it.

[FurEngel]

"We are not talking about donating a building, so that a school's more likely to take your son or daughter" <-- DOJ opening admitting that bribery is OKAY.

[dragrage]

"Money is power."
&
"Those who gain power are always afraid to lose it."

[Bandgeeeeeek]

Whew this woman has done her work!!! Doing her research!! Hope she making good pay!! You deserve it girl!

[CaptainPriceIsIvanL]

YB--Yale Baupost
HB--Harvard Baupost
PB--Princeton Baupost


Cmon its pretty obvious...

[chuckpuckett]

OK, I work for a small community college in a poor state. Our endowment is about $20 million. We also don't have $30, 000 a year tuition (about $3, 000 is ours). Our endowment helps our students, they will pay for tuition when financial aid runs our, they will even pay to fix our student's cars. I am proud to say that last week, we used our endowment to pay off ALL of our student's education debts.

[realEthanZou]

I'm surprised how reluctant these colleges are to share information. Now I really start to appreciate the Freedom of Information Act in the UK.

[jxsilicon]

I worked in private equity. So much money from pensions, endowments, etc. Its insane.

[oscarmonroy]

This girl is a stealth ninja infiltrating Harvard, University of Texas, and Yale ! They should all hire her to represent them in public relations! 🤓💻

[joeys]

That's some good ass reporting, well done.

[hansmaier]

As this was Pre-Covid I‘d love to see a follow up on how they spend money over this period and how they managed the lock-down time in comparision to other colleges

[chicostacos]

Rich Person: "You're taxing me too much. That's unaffordable anyways."
Congress: "Okay."
RP: *Buys 5 yachts and smuggles an Indian Tiger into the country.

[EloiseInParis]

If the money is truly sitting somewhere accumulating why would they be so concerned about a small tax on investment profits? The way things are currently being handled these endowments sound like the perfect place to launder money, cover ponzi schemes, and hide taxable income.

[varelabelsoffical]

Jaden Urbri makes the best videos, she throughly researches things, has a relaxing and clear voice, and gets straight to to point! Give our girl a raise

[Phlegethon]

17:00 Most british indian dude I've ever seen "oh tank you Kelly indeed we were!"

[TheBoyJenius]

Damn girl, you dug up crazy dirt on these people. Home girl out here doing work!