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UC Davis psychology professor Robert Emmons practices what he researches, expressing thanks for a $5.6 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to advance the science of gratitude. “Thanks to the generosity of the John Templeton Foundation, we will be able to rapidly grow the science of gratitude and expand the scientific database of this [...]
Davidson College has received $25 million from an alumnus to fund scholarships, the school announced Sunday at its commencement ceremony. The donation is the second-largest in the school’s history, Davidson officials said. Ted Baker, a businessman, military veteran and member of the Davidson Class of 1957, made the donation to fund the Baker-Vagt Scholarship, which [...]
As Shenandoah University’s chief fundraisers try to grow their donor pool this year, they are targeting a not-so-wealthy population for the first time: students who are about to graduate. It’s not an easy pitch. The private university in Winchester, Va., charges more than $35,000 a year for tuition and other expenses, and more than 85 percent of a [...]
The Simons Foundation, which specializes in science and math research, has chosen the University of California, Berkeley, as host for an ambitious new center for computer science, the university plans to announce on Tuesday. The foundation’s $60 million grant to establish the center, to be called the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at U.C. [...]
Dr. Seuss, who wasn’t really a doctor at all, would probably be tickled to know that a prestigious medical school has been named after him. Dartmouth College announced Wednesday that its medical school will be known from now on as the Audrey and Theodor Geisel School of Medicine. Theodor Seuss Geisel was Dr. Seuss’ real [...]
The endowment of the University of California at Los Angeles has gained an average of 12.3 percent annually for the past three years, by far the fastest growth among the best-endowed U.S. colleges, according to a Bloomberg review of schools’ financial data. UCLA has benefited from some of the biggest donations of the post-recession rebound [...]
A combination of demographic and economic changes will re-size the global higher education landscape by 2020, according to a new report by the British Council. The largest higher education systems are likely to be China with some 37 million students, India with 28 million, the US with 20 million and Brazil with nine million. However [...]
A small but growing number of private colleges are freezing tuition and rethinking policies that have driven up prices to unsustainable levels. According to the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, which represents more than 950 private colleges, 15 have announced tuition freezes for the 2012-13 school year. The group includes two well-known, selective [...]
The Rockefeller University has received a $15 million gift from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to fund research into digestive disorders including metabolic diseases, cancers and infections, university officials announced today. The funds will establish a new center, to be known as the Center for Basic and Translational Research on Disorders [...]
Colleges and universities in the U.S. raised $30.3 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, 2011, up 8.2 percent over 2010, but still $1.3 billion shy of the historical high posted in 2008, a new study says. After adjusting for inflation, the 2011 fundraising increase slid to 4.8 percent, but outpaced a flat year [...]
