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Download full textCaine, Rebecca – Sustainable Endowments Institute (NJ1), 2011
The Caltech Energy Conservation Investment Program (CECIP) was initiated in 2009. It manages $8 million within an existing fund in the school's endowment, which had been created to finance capital projects. Any member of the Caltech community may submit a project proposal, and projects are considered for approval as long as they have at least a 15…
Descriptors: Program Proposals, Energy Conservation, Lighting, Energy Management
Direct linkKeller, Josh – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Most athletics programs, if forced to raise $300-million to renovate a football stadium, would not set an ambitious endowment goal at the same time. The University of California at Berkeley is trying to do both. The university's California Memorial Stadium sits directly over an earthquake fault: it needs a major seismic retrofit that will take…
Descriptors: College Athletics, State Aid, Universities, Endowment Funds
Perry, Michael – CURRENTS, 2010
The changes and uncertainty people have seen in the economy over the past 20 months have created a paradigm shift in fundraising. This has certainly been the case at Holy Cross, a Jesuit liberal arts college of 2,900 students in Massachusetts, as it has been forced to rethink its strategies and adapt in creative ways to the new reality. Other…
Descriptors: Fund Raising, Donors, Economic Climate, Colleges
Peer reviewedAnderson, Luke A. – New Directions for Higher Education, 2010
In the late summer of 2008, after the 2007-2008 fiscal year's books had closed, the nation's wealthiest universities were confronted with an unfamiliar sight: single-digit endowment returns. Not since 2003 had Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts), Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey), or Stanford University (Stanford, California)…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Endowment Funds, Universities, Economic Climate
Gann, Pamela B. – Presidency, 2009
As college presidents face the challenges of a turbulent and uncertain economy, they are working to assess the impacts on their strategic financial positions and to develop response plans that reflect their institutional missions and values. How can college presidents navigate during these difficult economic times as they seek to hold on to the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Presidents, Economic Climate, Access to Education
Continuing Higher Education Review, 2008
This article presents an interview with Mary Bitterman and James Narduzzi. Mary Bitterman, former President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, is President of The Bernard Osher Foundation and Immediate Past Chairman of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). James Narduzzi is Dean of the University of Richmond's School of Continuing Studies.…
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Adult Students, Reentry Students, Scholarships
