Isaac Arnsdorf
Tuition rate to rise slightly

Tuition is expected to rise modestly next year, pending approval by the Yale Corporation, the University’s highest governing body. As the Corporation prepares to meet […]

Yale considers retirement incentives

  As the economy slid into recession, the value of invested faculty retirement funds plummeted alongside the stock market, and Yale is now expecting more […]

Briefly: Dartmouth cuts budget in response to endowment drop

Dartmouth College will lay off 60 employees after its endowment fell 18 percent, part of the school’s plan to cut its $700 million operating budget […]

Obama names Swensen to economics panel

President Barack Obama on Friday appointed Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen to his Economic Recovery Advisory Board, though a University official said he will […]

Briefly: After endowment drop, Harvard shakes up investment managers

The firm that manages Harvard’s endowment is shaking up a quarter of its staff after the fund plunged 22 percent in the four months up […]

News analysis: Investment officer was consulted on bailout

Friday was not Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen’s first trip to Washington in recent months — several administration officials consulted him last fall on […]

Obama names Swensen to economics panel

President Barack Obama on Friday appointed Yale Chief Investment Officer David Swensen to his Economic Recovery Advisory Board. The board, headed by former Federal Reserve […]

Yale to cap salaries

The University is capping salary raises for both faculty and staff in the next fiscal year as part of its efforts to reduce personnel costs […]

Briefly: Columbia endowment down 15 percent

Columbia University’s endowment dropped 15 percent in the second half of 2008, Columbia President Lee Bollinger announced Saturday. Endowment funds available to the school will […]

Briefly: Brown endowment to fall 30 percent by June

Brown University expects its endowment to fall almost 30 percent to $2 billion by the end of June 2009, Brown President Ruth Simmons announced Tuesday. […]

Yale cools down hiring

Amid a spate of staff hiring freezes at other universities, including peers such as Harvard and Stanford, Yale has passed on a strict freeze, opting […]