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College Endowment Spending

How institutions draw on endowment principal and income, including sustainable draw rates and the practice of borrowing from restricted funds.

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Hiram College pulled 84% of its endowment into the operating budget

More than $47 million came out of a $56 million fund that held 325 separate donor-restricted accounts, and Ohio's attorney general is now negotiating repayment of money the college has already spent. Nearly 200 private colleges did some version of this last year.

Publishers:fortune.com

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