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…ey be offended and angry? In all fairness, they might not be thrilled that we created a record of the visit, BUT there is a significant difference between being offended and being unhappy. The unspeakable may happen at Brown University as they are being asked to turn over donor records as a result of some civil litigation. This court order includes “unredacted” employee email that is being requested. The issue is not about Brown, but about how …
Yale University and Harvard University may have to cut investments in hedge funds and private equity because the risks of holding the hard-to-sell assets outweigh the returns, said Bill Gross, co-chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. Full-text article by Sree Vidya Bhaktavasalam and Gillian Wee is available via Bloomberg.com, 5.29.09. …
The University of Wisconsin System board of regents has recommended that state funds be put in place to permit construction in 2011 of a 100,000–square-foot building for the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. Full text article is available via The Business Journal, 8/20/10. …
The University of Wisconsin System board of regents has recommended that state funds be put in place to permit construction in 2011 of a 100,000–square-foot building for the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. Full text article is available via The Business Journal, 8/20/10. …
…arded as a leading innovator in 21st-century development strategies. And, he is the author of the sought-after book, Fundraising Analytics: Using Data to Guide Strategy. Mr. Birkholz earned his Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University-St. Paul and his Master of Arts in nonprofits arts and cultural management from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. …
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently completed one of the first statistically significant, longitudinal studies on the usage of social media by United States charities. The new study compares organizational adoption of social media in 2007 and 2008 by the 200 largest charities in the United States as compiled annually by Forbes Magazine. For complete details on Forbes Magazine’s list of the large…
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has announced a $10 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a public-private partnership to preserve and enhance the humanities at top-level public research universities. The grant, which will be matched by the state, will be used to bolster core disciplines, hire new faculty, and support postdoctoral and graduate students in the humanities. The university will use $2.5 million of the fun…
The University of Chicago Law School has announced a three-year, $10 million gift from alumnus and university trustee David M. Rubenstein to provide full-tuition scholarships to sixty students. Beginning in 2011, the gift will fund twenty merit scholarships in each of three successive classes, supporting about one-tenth of the school’s student population. Full text article by Shelly Banjo is available via The Wall Street Journal, 9/8/10. …
Laurel Price Jones joined Bentz Whaley Flessner in 2011 with more than 25 years’ experience in leading development teams both in healthcare and in higher education. Most recently, she served as associate vice president for medical development at Stanford University where she and her team in the School of Medicine crossed the $1 billion mark as part of Stanford’s $4.3 billion comprehensive campaign. She led the development and alumni relations ef…
