<p>You might want to check and find out.</p>
<p>I am not sure what students will do with this information, however--it's not just the endowment performance, but how much do endowment proceeds contribute to the overall budget? It's a bigger deal for some schools than at others.</p>
<p>Duke is holding steady due to sound investing practices by the university's administration according to a recent newspaper article.</p>
<p>Just to put this in some perspective, Harvard's record losses come on top of several years of record gains. Also, most schools tap endowment funds at a rate of 5% (or less) of a 3-year rolling average of endowment assets, which will mitigate the size of the hit Harvard's operating budget faces this year. Also, I believe Harvard's actual payout from its endowment has been something less than 5% in recent years. Still, if Moody's analysis is right and colleges and universities do absorb 30% losses in endowment assets this year, a lot of them are going to be hit pretty hard. See:</p>
<p>Harvard</a> considers cuts as financial crisis hits - Boston.com</p>
<p>Check whether financial aid is affected at the college you care about. It is still budgeted and financially secure at Harvard. </p>
<p>If Penn has managed to avoid losing 30% of their endowment value (a la harvard) or stumbing into a liquidity crisis (a la columbia), I will apologize to them for all the terrible things I've said over the years as they have poked along with puny single-digit returns year after year...</p>
<p>Michigan is just about to finish a campaign called "Michigan Difference" that raised over $3.1 billion over the last 4 years. </p>
<p>The University's endowment stands at $7.6 billion as of end of June this year, which is a growth of $0.5 billion from the $7.1 billion in 2007. But no news out yet regarding how it was affected in the recent month by the financial turmoil.</p>
<p>What website would I go to, in order to find out if a university seen a decreasein endowment?</p>
<p>Universities typically report their endowment values yearly. If there has been a big change in the middle of the cycle, it might be addressed in a campus news release (that's why we're hearing about some endowments, because of news stories). But I don't think you can count on finding this information in any kind of systematic way. </p>
<p>Perhaps nocousin knows of a good resource, though, since s/he is advocating that everyone check out the schools they're interested in.</p>
<p>Our new President has a new direction for our nation: "spread the wealth". Some think the target is the rich individuals and corporations, but perhaps the target should also include those wealthy colleges just sitting on their huge endowments. Wouldn't it be nice to see these rich colleges share their multi-billion dollar endowments with colleges that are struggling financially today. Even with the recent loss in values, these endowments are still great. American donors to the endowments have already enjoyed their tax break, so they probably wouldn't mind having their money transferred to a national college endowment to help deserving students and their college facing economic hardship. America's students would likely support Obama in putting the endowments to practical use because, like he says of spreading wealth, "its good for everybody."</p>
<p>"If Penn has managed to avoid losing 30% of their endowment value (a la harvard) or stumbing into a liquidity crisis (a la columbia)," Where does it say that Harvard is losing 30% of their endowment value??</p>
<p>The Amherst Student recently reported that our endowment has gone down 25 percent in value.</p>
<p>Minor rebuilding projects will be scrapped, but initiatives to renovate science facilities and classrooms will continue.</p>