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Resuscitating Dead Money
Donors give money because they want you to spend it. It’s worth the effort and investment for your college to do research into whether a contributor’s funds are really restricted.
A Pocket Guide to Fundraising Terms
Just about everything you need to know to understand the basic relationship between colleges and universities and their donors.
Divination Modalities and the Art of Scholarship Agreements
Fundraising may not technically be one of the magical arts, but keeping donors happy while serving institutional purposes can take superhuman skills.
Why Can’t We Spend the Endowment?
All these tantalizing millions sit in those accounts, but we still might have to cut the budget? Huh?
How to Ask for Money
Some key tips: seek donors’ advice before asking for money, don’t show desperation and remember that nobody owes you anything.
Advice for Presidents From the Ghost of Diana Vreeland
What the former Vogue editor might have told today’s campus leaders about how to dress (and very much how not to).
And Just Like That, She Became Unhinged
In search of a meal, an encounter with a vociferous opponent of student loan forgiveness.
‘Don’t Buy Your Underwear in Town’
An unsuccessful search for the female president who first uttered those words, and other insights about being the first woman to lead an institution.