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As Student Debt Rises, Colleges Confront Costs

Date: 05/14/2012

The New York Times

Slowly, as Student Debt Rises, Colleges Confront Costs
By Andrew Martin
 
COLUMBUS, Ohio — In a wood-paneled office lined with books, sports memorabilia and framed posters (including John Belushi in “Animal House”), E. Gordon Gee, the president of Ohio State University, keeps a framed quotation that reads, “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”
 

$15 Million Gift to Boston College

Date: 05/10/2012

The Boston Globe

A grateful alum thanks his Jesuits Cambridge native gives BC, BC High total $27m

Pat Cadigan, a Cambridge native and the son of Irish immigrants, went from helping his father run an Inman Square bar to leading several high-tech companies in California, and he credits his Jesuit education at Boston College and Boston College High School for helping him succeed.

Washburn U. Receives Largest Gift Ever

Date: 05/01/2012

Wibw.com
Reporter: From 13 News, Posted by Ralph Hipp
 
Washburn Heralding $6 Million Gift
 

Brooklyn Museum Elevates Women and Art

Date: 04/23/2012

The Wall Street Journal
Elevating Women and Art.
By NATE FREEMAN
 
On Wednesday night, just a stone's throw from that plaza's towering Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch, the Brooklyn Museum's annual Artists Ball gathered locals and island-dwellers alike for a long and elegant toast to the Sackler Center for Feminist Art.  To celebrate the five-year anniversary of Elizabeth Sackler's donation, this year's gala asked 18 female artists, all based in Brooklyn, to design centerpieces for the dinner tables.

$48 million gift to Dartmouth

Date: 03/29/2012

Dartmouth Now
 

King’s College London Law School Gift: $31M

Date: 03/19/2012

BBC News London
King's College London gets £20m donation for law school

Assets Slow to Recover at Top Foundations

Date: 03/18/2012

The Chronicle of Philanthropy
Big Grant Makers Don’t Expect to Increase Giving in 2012
By Noelle Barton and Maria Di Mento

$40 Million Gift to Hospital for Sick Kids

Date: 03/08/2012

The Toronto Star
Mattamy Homes’ Peter Gilgan donates $40 million to Sick Kids
 
On Wednesday, Gilgan donated $40 million to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children, the biggest contribution ever made to the hospital.
 
Intensely private, he briefly stepped into the limelight to make the donation.
 
While happy to discuss his philanthropic work, he bristles when the questions get personal and is reluctant even to give his age.
 

$41M gift to Oxford

Date: 03/05/2012

The Wall Street Journal

Rutgers U. Receives $1.5M for Faculty

Date: 03/02/2012

The Wall Street Journal
 
Gift Helps to Fund Rutgers Faculty
By MELANIE GRAYCE WEST
 
Steven H. Temares, chief executive of Bed Bath & Beyond, is supporting his alma mater with a $1.5 million gift that will endow a faculty position at the Brain Health Institute at Rutgers University.