Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A $1 billion donation to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx borough of New York City will pay tuition for all of its students, The New York Times reported.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This unprecedented donation, one of the largest ever bestowed upon an educational institution in the United States, is intended to cover the tuition for future medical students in perpetuity. Their shared commitment to helping those in need inspired her donation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His donation to his alma mater comes after pledging to do so during the 2022 BET Awards. This is not the first time Combs has donated to Howard, having donated to the school’s business program back in 2016 for student scholarships and internship opportunities, according to Howard’s school paper The Hilltop.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The Bronx institution will make the change in August, and it will reimburse all fourth-year students for their spring 2024 semester tuition.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 17, 2024

The City University of New York system is receiving the largest donation in its history, intended to help the urban university boost its technology and artificial intelligence programs. CUNY plans to announce today that it will receive $75 million from the Simons Foundation, a philanthropy focused on furthering research in math and sciences.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. It is believed to be the single-largest one-time donation ever granted to an HBCU. ” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. ” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over the years, Shaw has collected about 70 gowns—mostly by setting up a table every year at commencement so that graduates can donate their robes as soon as they’re done wearing them. (It WeaR It Forward launched this fall with the unveiling of a donation box to collect gowns at the university’s homecoming football game.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

” The post President’s corner: How Eli Capilouto inspired a spate of gracious donations appeared first on University Business. . “The ideas certainly don’t start with me, but I believe we have a culture focused on how to best serve our students in our commonwealth.”

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 26, 2024

The Board of Trustees at Northland College has delayed making a decision on whether to close due to financial issues, citing “several transformative donor gifts” received this week.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 8, 2024

Peer-reviewed research found private research universities saw the biggest decline in donor numbers.

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Economics and Change in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York, will offer free tuition following a $1 billion donation from its board chair — a gift the institution called the largest ever to an American medical school. The couple previously donated $25 million to the college in 2008. She is also the widow of Wall Street financier David Gottesman.

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University Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The post Hood College receives $54 million, largest donation in school’s history appeared first on University Business. On Wednesday, the school will host an event where students will have the opportunity to sign a thank you card to the Hodson trustees along with participating in a student giveaway featuring sweet treats and t-shirts.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sixty-one percent of charitable donations to higher ed came from organizations, 22 percent came from alumni and 16 percent came from individuals who were not alumni. percent, donations to two-year institutions fell by more than 15 percent from fiscal 2021, a decline that Pasic said was both surprising and discouraging.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The march stepped off Friday and the students received more than $7,000 in monetary donations from alumni, fraternities and nonprofit organizations to support their cause Read more from CBS News. The post Lincoln University students garnering more support, donations in their march for state funding appeared first on University Business.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Johannes Kraus, business development consultant, UCT English Language Centre, said the institution was “delighted to welcome the IE Intercâmbio students through such a rewarding program” According to Sá, this cohort of students is the first of many groups to be sponsored by the program which is funded by donations.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2023

World-renowned artist gifts painting to mark award of honorary degree for author’s outstanding achievements The acclaimed African American artist Kerry James Marshall has donated his first formal portrait of a living person to the University of Cambridge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Harvey Nevertheless, some of these alumni maintain various levels of contact with their alma maters – ranging from attending reunion events, to regularly reviewing materials they receive from the college or university, to making monetary donations they hope will help produce a more inclusive atmosphere for current and future generations.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 25, 2024

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is using a $50 million donation to launch a new school focused on technology. The four-year public university announced Wednesday that it had received the multi-million dollar donation from alumnus Thomas Siebel, who now serves as the CEO of C3.ai,

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Hood College and Washington College each received over $50 million, the largest donations in their respective histories, from the now-dissolved trust.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 19, 2024

Davidson College, a private, liberal arts institution in North Carolina, has secured an $85 million donation to expand its library with a focus on bringing it into the digital age.

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Higher Ed Dive

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Alumni gifts rose by over 10% and large dollar donations remained deeply influential, a new CASE report found.

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APRIL 23, 2024

Livingstone College The gift is the fourth consecutive donation at the $1 million level to the college from an anonymous donor. Livingstone College’s Class of 1973 raised more than $300,000 to support its alma mater and gifted an antique framed plate of the Price Building, which was presented to Livingstone President Dr. Anthony J.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 18, 2024

It is the largest donation in the Baltimore institution's 140-year history. Goucher College has received a gift of approximately $55 million, which will be used primarily for scholarships, the college announced Wednesday.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 26, 2024

Dartmouth College is boosting financial aid significantly for middle-income students, thanks to a $150 million donation—the largest scholarship gift in the college’s history.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). the largest unrestricted private donation in the organization’s history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Stupski Foundation has provided $1 million to create a fund to financially assist University of Hawaiʻi (UH) students affected by the devasting Maui wildfires. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

The Bruins quarterback donates part of his NIL earnings to such causes. School: University of California Major: Legal Studies Year: Senior Chase Griffin , a legal studies major at the University of California, Los Angeles, sets the example as an active supporter of programs to combat food insecurity.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 15, 2022

New York University has received a gift of $100 million to go toward a giant new multipurpose building that has been in development since 2016, the university announced Wednesday. The funds were contributed by John Paulson, a Stern School of Business alumnus, for whom the building will be named.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 7, 2023

A jury awarded over $39 million last week to a former University of California, San Diego, doctor who alleged that the university tried to redirect a $10 million gift for his research into a general gift to a cancer center and retaliated against him when he spoke up.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Stony Brook University, a public school on Long Island, received a donation of $500 million on Thursday from a foundation formed by an alumnus and a former faculty member, making it the recipient of one of the largest gifts to a university in American history.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

A $60 million donation to boost artificial intelligence work at Indiana University at Bloomington. Experts urge both action and caution as institutions pour millions into artificial intelligence. The University at Albany’s $200 million AI plans. Miami Dade College spending $5 million each for AI centers on two campuses.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 18, 2024

Davidson College, a private, liberal arts institution in North Carolina, A North Carolina college has secured a $85 million donation to expand and renovate its library and and digitize its extensive collection? with a focus on bringing it into the digital age.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Funding at 27 universities can shift not just research agendas, but also policy in the direction the industry prefers, authors argue Six fossil fuel companies funnelednearly $700m in research funding to 27 universities in the US from 2010 to 2020, according to new research.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Late Irish actor’s poems, photos, plaques and even his wedding list among items handed over by family Richard Harris blazed through life as an actor, singer, boozer and womaniser but few knew he was also a hoarder. Poems, photos, letters, script notes, artefacts, documents, rugby plaques, his wedding guest list – he kept it all.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Howard Hewitt, Evelyn “Champagne” King, Ronald Isley, and others planned to call into the station’s broadcast to encourage donations to UNCF, the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships and financial assistance for African American and other underrepresented students to achieve access to higher education.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While the GOP-led movement to disband DEI offices has caught fire across the country, school donations in 2023 suggest a rift between lawmakers’ wishes and the community’s. While donations in the NACUBO-Commonfund report point to private support for DEI, some college leaders are also stepping up.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 29, 2023

Hope College lets a small group of students attend for free and asks them to donate money to the institution after they graduate. The students only had to commit to return the favor by donating money to the institution after they graduate. An effort to raise $1 billion to expand the pilot program campuswide is going slowly.

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