Citing pandemic issues and poor enrollment numbers, Buffalo-based Medaille University marks another private school in the Northeast too financially strapped to continue operations. Instead of closing, however, they're merging.

Charitable giving to colleges and universities totaled a record $59.5 billion in fiscal year 2022—representing a 12.5% increase, the largest bump in higher ed philanthropy in more than two decades, according to new data from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. It’s also the most, in dollar terms, that’s ever been given, even […]

Big-money donors on the right like the Olin and Koch foundations have been establishing “beachhead” academic centers in universities across the country since the 1970s, as a means of shoring up academic arguments for right-wing policies, creating a pipeline of conservative talent, and endowing professorships for right-wing scholars—some of whom, more moderate academics suggest, are unemployable on […]

Temple University and The University of Alabama both share prominent values necessary for fundraising: persistence and relationship-building.