Endowment Quotes

You can't exist too many years like that without having some kind of endowment backing you. We just weren't near any metropolitan areas where you could draw regular attendance. - David Staples

Yale?s capacity to fulfill its ambitious mission has been greatly enhanced by their superb stewardship of the endowment. - Richard Levin

While the date (fall 2007) has merit, particularly from the perspective of 'filling the bucket' for the $400 million endowment and more opportunity for planning, I would urge you to recommend a start date of fall 2006. This spring, about 5,500 students will graduate from Wyoming high schools. Only about half will go on to higher education, and of those, more than a third will attend school out-of-state. Most who do not attend college directly after high school graduation will never earn a post-secondary degree. Many who go to college out-of-state will be lost to Wyoming forever. - Tom Buchanan

While the concert in and of itself is exciting and the potential endowment dollars are exciting, even more is that the artists have all agreed to work with students while they are here. - Dr. Sidney Fallon

When you compare our endowment to the benchmarks set by the Council on Postsecondary Education, we are low. - Susan Krauss

When there are people suffering and people in need right now, it's a harder argument to give money to a memorial, to a capital campaign, or an endowment. - Daniel Borochoff

We've got three starters back on offense and two on defense. We're very green, ... We lost our offensive line, quarterback and main wide receiver. We're running around like chickens with our heads cut off. It's kinda early. These endowments, we look at them as a glorified scrimmages. - Clay Jordan