OMG, this thread has been running on vapors for about 6 pages now. For a much more substantive (and, entertaining) debate about Wesleyan, readers are advised to revisit:
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/wesleyan-university/1191404-what-has-happened-to-wesleyan.html
To close my part in this small section, your post #174 should have been clear to me, @wesleyan97â. Itâs certainly logically worded in relation to what preceded it.
And for the record, I fully retract my allegations of plagiarism. I should have inquired further before my suggestion of that.
For those who are interested in the topic of plagiarism in academia, consider the case of a Hamilton College president. He resigned over an incident wherein he did not give attribution to an online reviewer he came across. The fact that this was in his spoken words and involved only an online review did not offer him immunity.
(Hamilton President Resigns Over Speech; The New York Times)
One thing Wesleyan doesnât need is more snow! It received 15-16 inches of the white stuff during the recent storm system that hit New England. Here are some awesome photos:
http://newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu/2015/02/01/blizzardphotos/
@Englishmanâ
While there is still plenty of work to be done, Wesleyan has taken steps to get its financial house in order. Whereas previously 75% of raised funds were spent and 25% put into the endowment on a yearly basis, that mix has reversed almost entirely within the past 5 years. This was a large reason for Wesleyanâs endowment falling behind (in addition to not having a capital campaign in the late 80âs, doubling the student body in the 70âs-80âs when women were readmitted, and spending down the endowment for capital projects in the 70âs), but then in the 90âs Wesleyan exacerbated its problem by spending what it could raise in order to keep up with peers. Now it has begun conservatively building the fiscal base for the long term and is investing what it raises, which will help the endowment long term (though obviously impacting spending - and ranking - in the short term). There has been plenty of crying over spilt milk, but the endowment damage was done and is slowly being fixed.
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I had to delete a couple of posts due to TOS violations. From Terms of Service:
Congratulations should go to the investment management team at Wesleyan that handles the schoolâs endowment. For the fourth year in a row the net gains for the Wesleyan endowment outpaced the average returns of the US college and university endowments. 2015âs gain was 5.4% and that bettered the average of 2.4%. Two NESCAC schools had even better performances than Wesleyanâs with Bowdoin coming in at 14.5% and Williams with 6.3%.
Itâs interesting to note that Wesleyanâs Chief Investment Officer is one of quite a few proteges of David Swenson of Yale. Others include investment officers at MIT, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Bowdoin. The endowment returns for every one of those schools crushed the average returns for all schools in the US.