[Old School]

Reports recently surfaced about the huge endowment funds of Colleges and Universities, as of 2007 over 76 Colleges or Unversities had endowment funds topping 1 billion dollars, with Harvard's fund reaching 35 billion dollars. These endowments average 17% return rate last year while these schools only spend about 4.5% of the funds. It's amazing to me that these schools have so much money in these funds, yet for some reason their tuition rates continue to rise 8% per year.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2...lege_N.htm

The link below list the endowment funds of over 600 schools,
66. Berea College $948,738,000
83. UK $785,196,000
91. UL $680,251,000
253. Cente $176,190,000
304. Asbury $128,896,000
308. Transylbvania $125,485,000
550. Georgetown College $38,651,000
653. KCTCS System $21,212,000

http://www.nacubo.org/documents/research...isting.pdf

[Beef]

My school's endowment is 1,650,000,000. They are supposed to be using more of it and I believe that the have because there are a lot more scholarships available to students as well as many major improvements on campus (but then again many of those are privately funded)

[Old School]

My school's endowment is 1,650,000,000. They are supposed to be using more of it and I believe that the have because there are a lot more scholarships available to students as well as many major improvements on campus (but then again many of those are privately funded)

I hope the schools are using more of the monies, I would love to see more scholarships made available. What I find annoying is the fact that these schools are raising their rates while having so much money in their endowment funds.