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2020 Showed That Colleges Don’t Have Revenue Problems. They Have Funding Shortfalls.

December 30, 2020

Via: Ed Surge

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As the year ends, one of the bigger higher education stories of the moment is Mackenzie Davis (née Bezos) gifting tens of millions of dollars to numerous low-endowment colleges and universities, most specifically HBCUs.

These gifts—$30 million to Winston-Salem State, $40 million to Morgan State, $50 million to Prairie View A&M University—are in most cases the largest donations in institutional history, larger even than the existing endowments at each institution.

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