Fundraising

Donation from NRA president helped prompt college to change gift policy, raising questions: If you take someone's money, are you endorsing them? What if he boasts of getting professors "giddy" about shooting guns?

Alumni donors help push charitable totals to $43.6 billion in 2017.

Rising returns in 2017 weren't enough to keep up 10-year averages, fueling concerns about endowments' long-term spending power -- especially in light of new tax.

Successful investor Bill Miller gives $75 million to philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, a move raising hopes for fund-raising for the humanities.

The endowment tax is an attack on all colleges and universities, done for explicit ideological reasons to try to pressure institutions to silence leftists and lift up conservatives, argues John K. Wilson.

UT Austin says it will not accept funding from a foundation after concerns were raised about its connections to the Chinese Communist Party.

The number of institutions subject to the newly enacted tax could grow by dozens in future years.

Despite unknowns, colleges and universities are looking at investment and spending strategies to dodge a new tax on net investment earnings.