More than a dozen schools across the nation are expected to fall under the top tax rate in the new Republican tax and ...

An endowment tax hitting Harvard University and MIT spares four wealthy small liberal arts schools. An unlikely ally was ...

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President Trump’s new tax law significantly raises levies on wealthy university endowments, placing Harvard and its peers under financial strain. While the policy targets institutional wealth, critics ...

The president of Harvard University warns that federal actions could cost $1 billion annually due to tax hikes and funding freezes. As a result, the university plans to cut expenditures and freeze ...

Harvard University warned that the combined cost of federal actions against the school, including a recently passed tax increase on its endowment, could approach $1 billion annually.

Columbia will likely avoid the 1.4 percent endowment tax that it could have been subject to under the newly reformed endowment tax tier system introduced in President Donald Trump’s tax and spending ...

But the final law exempts schools with fewer than 3,000 students from endowment taxes, meaning Grinnell will get a $2.4 million tax cut. Grinnell College officials were bracing for a $30 million tax ...

Harvard paid lobbying firm Ballard Partners $90,000 in the second quarter of 2025 as the University broadened its federal advocacy to include direct engagement with the White House, according to a ...

The institution went so far as to hire lobbyists to make its case — and they were armed with an argument tailored perfectly for the right.

Harvard's total endowment is valued at more than $50 billion. Senate Republicans, who are largely more moderate than their counterparts in the House, ultimately watered down the legislation.