Word: endowment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Four women with close ties to the Graduate School of Education (GSE) have joined together to endow the University's first professorship in gender studies...
These days, it seems better to refuse than to receive. LARRY KRAMER, bellicose playwright and activist, wanted to bequeath several million dollars to Yale for a tenured chair in gay and lesbian studies. Yale, which doesn't like to take instruction from benefactors, said "it was inappropriate to endow in perpetuity a professorship in an academic area yet to be well established or defined," and wanted to put his money elsewhere. Kramer opted out. "It has been a very distasteful experience," says the playwright. Meanwhile in St. Paul, Minn., artist LEROY NEIMAN withdrew an offer to donate $4.5 million worth...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences hopes to endow 40 new professorships, particularly in areas with high student demand, but funds have been raised for only 18 of these positions. The Divinity School has endowed only two of the four professorships it wishes to create...
Overall, the University has raised only 40 percent of its goal for professorships, each of which costs $3.5 million to endow...
...Freedmen's Bureau--to finance the construction of schools, housing, transportation grids, factories, you name it, in the most depressed areas where the descendants of slaves are a majority. Use it to help finance new black-owned companies, to put poor black kids through college and endow cash-poor historically black universities, to run drug-treatment and job-training centers. Since the government is too deeply in debt to put up the whole sum at once, it could pay it off in installments over, say, the next 244 years. With a program like that, Mr. President, you could scrap affirmative...