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Perhaps US Universities should tap into billion dollar endowments or slash the administrative headcount instead of raising tuition yet again.

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/02/nih-trump...

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But the point of an endowment is to have a relatively stable funding stream in perpetuity - if you start dipping into the principal, the funding stream starts shrinking and is no longer perpetual.

Harvard’s endowment, for example, already funds a little less than 40% of its budget, and should be able to continue doing so indefinitely. If you bump that to even, say, 50% there’s a good chance it won’t have any endowment (or funding stream!) at all in the year 2100.

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