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Harvard’s War With Trump Forces Question of How Endowments Should Be Spent

alishpagda08@gmail.com1 month ago04 mins

There are proposals from Republicans in Congress to increase the tax on large endowments, potentially to 14 percent, much higher than the 1.4 percent put in place eight years ago. Assuming a 10 percent return, that would leave Harvard with a tax bill of about $742,000,000, roughly equal to what it spent on financial aid…

Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump

alishpagda08@gmail.com2 months ago019 mins

Late last week, officials at Harvard University were trying to decipher what the Trump administration wanted the school to do to combat antisemitism. The government had made some straightforward demands, like requiring the school to ban masks, which are often favored by protesters. But other demands seemed vague. Then, late on Friday night, the federal…