Harvard’s endowment grew to $36.4 billion in the 2014 fiscal year with a return of 15.4 percent, the Harvard Crimson reported. This endowment is just below the institution’s peak in endowment in June 2008 before it lost nearly $11 billion in the global financial crisis.
Harvard’s return for the 2014 fiscal year is higher than the return of 11.3 percent it got during the 2013 fiscal year.
The 2014 fiscal year marked the fifth consecutive year in which Harvard exceeded the benchmark it created for itself. However, it only exceeded the benchmark by 0.8 percent, the lowest margin by which a benchmark has been exceeded.
Even with these remarkable gains Harvard continues to trail behind some of its peer institutions in growth. While most of Harvard’s peer institutions have yet to release their returns for 2014, three peer institutions have exceeded Harvard by more than 2 percentage points. MIT and Dartmouth both grew by 19.2 percent and the University of Pennsylvania by 17.5 percent.
Princeton has yet to announce its returns for the year.
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‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ at Princeton
Daily Princetonian StaffPrinceton students began a sit-in McCosh Courtyard early Thursday morning, joining a wave of pro-Palestinian sit-ins across the country.
Princeton students began a sit-in McCosh Courtyard early Thursday morning, joining a wave of pro-Palestinian sit-ins across the country.
‘Gaza Solidarity Encampment’ launches at Princeton, students arrested
Annie Rupertus and Miriam WaldvogelPrinceton students erected a tent encampment in McCosh Courtyard early Thursday morning, joining a wave of pro-Palestinian sit-ins across the country. Princeton Public Safety has issued it’s first warning to protesters, and at least two student arrest has been made.
Princeton students erected a tent encampment in McCosh Courtyard early Thursday morning, joining a wave of pro-Palestinian sit-ins across the country. Princeton Public Safety has issued it’s first warning to protesters, and at least two student arrest has been made.
In preemptive move, U. says encampment protestors will likely be arrested and barred from campus
Miriam WaldvogelStudents participating in an encampment on campus will be arrested and “immediately” barred from University grounds, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun wrote in an email to undergraduates on Wednesday morning. The move serves as an unprecedented pre-emptive response to the growing trend of pro-Palestinian encampments that have gripped peer institutions.
Students participating in an encampment on campus will be arrested and “immediately” barred from University grounds, Vice President for Campus Life W. Rochelle Calhoun wrote in an email to undergraduates on Wednesday morning. The move serves as an unprecedented pre-emptive response to the growing trend of pro-Palestinian encampments that have gripped peer institutions.
