As of 2009, the university's endowment is US $ 668 million.

In July 2004, Tulane received two $ 30 million donations to its endowment, the largest individual or combined gifts in the university's history.

A fund-raising campaign called " Promise & Distinction " raised $ 730. 6 million as of October 3, 2008, increasing the university's total endowment to more than $ 1. 1 billion ; by March 2009, Yvette Jones, Tulane's Chief Operating Officer, told Tulane's Staff Advisory Council that the endowment " has lost close to 37 %", affected by the late-2000s recession.

He was instrumental in adding more than $ 75 million to the university's endowment, developing an international finance concentration as part of the curriculum, and combining the various Asian studies programs into one department.

Under the auspices of President George Emert, who served at USU's helm from 1992 to 2000, the university's endowment increased from $ 7 million to $ 80 million.

It is named for the Colgate family who greatly contributed to the university's endowment in the 19th century.

With the university's endowment reaching $ 100 million in 2010, early the following year Lindenwood began construction of a new parking lot to ease congestion on campus.

This is also the case with the university's endowment fund.

The university's assets include a $ 152 million endowment.

For the 2011-2012 academic year, the university's operating budget was $ 467 million, and its endowment was over $ 717 million.

He was criticised for the university's decision to accept, in 2001, a £ 3. 8M endowment from tobacco multinational British American Tobacco aimed at establishing an International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility at Nottingham University Business School.

During his political career, Smith also sat on the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and donated 20, 000 acres ( 81 km² ) of land for the university's endowment ; he chaired the trustees during his term as governor.

Edward's brother, John A. Creighton, is credited with fostering and sustaining the university's early growth and endowment.

Today, the university's endowment totals approximately $ 1. 88 billion and ranked 33rd among North American university endowments for fiscal year 2011.

During the Great Depression, a conditional gift from Southwestern alumna Louisa Carothers Wiess substantially increased the university's endowment and motivated the university to pay off all its debts.

The average SAT score for entering freshmen increased by more than 125 points, the total university budget doubled to $ 1. 4 billion, the university's endowment more than tripled to approximately $ 7 billion and the amount of sponsored research done at Northwestern doubled to more than $ 350 million annually.

During the past fifteen years, the university's supporters helped increase the school's endowment by 284 percent.

At his direction, the University resisted selling its Wisconsin land grants in the aftermath of the Panic of 1873, earning millions of dollars for the university's endowment.

Harvard Management Company or HMC is an American investment management corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard University charged with managing the university's endowment, pension assets, working capital, and non-cash gifts.

HMC is best known for managing the university's $ 32 billion endowment, the largest endowment in higher education.

The newspaper is staffed largely by students of the journalism and broadcasting department of the university's communication arts department and managed by a faculty adviser and an advisory board which reports to the university president.

The trust then maintains a mailbox and deposits copies ( usually in ultrafiche ) in a secure location, such as rented space in a university's library ( managed as a special collection ), or ( more rarely now ) buried in a cave or a desert location.

Athletics at McMaster is currently managed by the university's student affairs, under their athletics & recreation department.

Another basic principle of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel – also incorporated in the university's statutes – is that the institution must be managed according to the model of democracy.

* The university's in-house managed learning environment has been replaced, after university-wide use of the Virtual Learning Portal ( VLP ) for five years ( 4. 85 TB of materials served and 6. 7 million logins during the 2006 / 07 academic year ).

In contrast, the university's " council colleges " do not have a separate legal identity and are actually owned, managed and governed directly by the university itself.

The city's economy is also centered on high technology, with several companies drawn to the area by the university's research and development money, and by its graduates.

The university's nursing major is approved by the South Carolina State Board of Nursing, and a BJU graduate with a BSN is eligible to take the National Council Licensure Examination to become a registered nurse.

The university's stand has been condemned by some other fundamentalists.

In December 1978, the federal district court ruled in the university's favor ; two years later, that decision was overturned by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Supervised by Leonard Kleinrock, Kline transmitted from the university's SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the Stanford Research Institute's SDS 940 Host computer.

The Deseret alphabet was developed primarily by a committee made up of the university's board of regents and church leaders Parley P. Pratt and Heber C. Kimball.

Although there were many changes during its first century, the university's identity has been held constant as privately controlled, non-sectarian, coeducational center of higher learning, distinguished by a commitment to preparing both men and women for future success.

The university had adopted the motto from the Earl of Dalhousie in order to replace the university's original motto, as the original motto was viewed by the university administration to not convey confidence.

In 1986 the university's governing body, the Board of Visitors, approved a new master plan for the year based on an enrollment of 20, 000 full-time students with housing for 5, 000 students by 1995.

The nations in Lund are a central part of the university's history, initially serving as residential colleges for students, organized by geographic origin.

Nonetheless, by joining the university's Philosophy and Journalism Societies, he was able to attend various lectures and seminars by the likes of Chen Duxiu, Hu Shi, and Qian Xuantong, but various lecturers still treated him with contempt and refused to answer his questions.

Within the first few hundred days of Schwartz's instatement as Vice-Chancellor, the ' Macquarie @ 50 ' strategic plan was launched, which positioned the university to enhance research, teaching, infrastructure and academic rankings by the university's 50th anniversary in 2014.

The University is accredited by a professional organization such as the Dietitians of Canada and the university's graduates may subsequently become registered dietitians.

He was expelled shortly afterwards by the university's procurator, Guillaume Rondelet, when it was discovered that he had been an apothecary, a " manual trade " expressly banned by the university statutes, and had been slandering doctors.

The original court was the university's smallest at only by, but was enlarged to its current size in the nineteenth century by demolishing the south range.

These two quads are surrounded by the university's main access road, a one-way loop referred to as the " inner loop ".

Leland Stanford, the university's founder, as painted by Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier in 1881 and now on display at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts | Cantor Center

On the university's opening day, Founding President David Starr Jordan said to Stanford's Pioneer Class: " is hallowed by no traditions ; it is hampered by none.

In 2009, SU completed the largest capital campaign in the university's history, raising almost $ 169 million and surpassing the original campaign goal by almost $ 20 million.