Fund-Raising/Development

First they got tenure at Colby College. Then they each got $100,000, no strings attached. Could the Haynesville Project be the new donation paradigm?

St. John’s College is getting closer to raising the money it needs to sustain a $17,000 tuition decrease the college made three years ago.

Multimillion-dollar gifts from MacKenzie Scott will allow community and regional colleges to build endowments, fund new student programs and jump-start internal fundraising efforts. Recipients hope other donors will follow suit.

University boots law dean from post after less than two years, suggesting he’s a better faculty member than a key fundraiser. The law faculty is livid.

Higher ed fundraising wakes up to reality a year after flying high with Bloomberg gift. Payouts from donor-advised funds drove an uptick in one giving category.

College fundraising revenue will likely decline as a result of the pandemic, a new survey from a consulting firm shows.

Experts respond to reader-generated questions about fundraising during the crisis and how to manage human resources as colleges shift to online instruction.

Tufts will remove the name of a family closely linked to opioids from its medical campus as it releases a report on decades of donations. Family's lawyer calls the decision "intellectually dishonest," but fundraising experts see needed reckoning with the past.

Hampshire College, the nearly 50-year-old experiment in self-directed education, facing "bruising financial and demographic realities," looks for a partner.

At DePauw, vote of no confidence in president follows cuts in health benefits in period of minimal raises.